Quick Links
HTML stands for `H'yper`T'ext `M'arkup `L'anguage. It currently provides two main features to web pages:
Note that some browsers, such as Lynx on Unix and Linux systems, do not display graphics, because they were designed in the early days of the Internet to be used on computers with non-graphic terminal windows.
Both of these capabilities are realized by means of tags. Most tags come in pairs, an opener and a corresponding closer. Thus, for example, <H1> is used to introduce the text for the largest sort of text `H'eading, while </H1> is used to terminate it.
Different web browsers render (display) text differently when they are interpreting the HTML tags. Most, however, will display the text surrounded by these two tags using a bold, large-sized font. The resultant heading is also separated from preceding and following text using whitespace.
Tags can also have attributes given to them. For example, the heading can be centered or quadded to the right (the default is quad left). Thus, the heading of this page has been centered using the "align" attribute with the value "center",
<H1 align=center>Basic HTML</H1>
while the "Tags" heading for this section was generated with
<H3>Tags</H3>
Unlike some computer languages such as C and Java, HTML is not case-sensitive.
A Select Set of Web Resources on HTML