Lesson 3-HyperText Markup Language

Note that all the tags had opening and closing removed. Sometimes, being smart is bad.

I learnt about HTML today. HTML is a simple but tedious coding of websites that usually requires a lot of patience to memorise the codes. HTML is the basic foundation of all websites: it is the most common markup language, and all browsers have been programmed to recognise html. This is usually in the form of the html tag. HTML has several tags which are the BACKBONE of HTML itself. They are the head tag, the title tag, and body tag.
The head tag basically does nothing in basic HTML. It only contains the title tag, which is put on the blue bar on Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. The blue bar is the bar that appears on the top of a program. For example, if you are on Wikipedia, the blue bar would show something like "Wikipedia-The free encyclopedia-Mozilla Firefox". This happens even if you are not using a browser: My Documents would show up if the file opened currently is My Documents.

The body tag is where most of the work takes place. It is where all the words are written. Usually, every other tag will come here. The tags are usually e or i for italics, u for underline, and h1 for biggest words. The body tag is usually a MUST in HTML, or else, a blank screen will simply appear.

HTML is extremely precise: If you missed out a letter/misspelled a word, the entire page will be horribly screwed up, with blank screens occuring most of the time. Also, closing tags are required for some tags. They include the basic tags, which are html, body and so on. To do that, one adds a slash before the words, like this:/h4