tag before a text. That's all fine and well, but everything after the bold tag will become bold. The entire page. You may only want to make one world bold. Therefor you must "end" a tag which will stop it's actions. To stop a tag you use this format: <\tag> For example: This is bold! This isn't! You'll learn more about other tags in the chapters to come. One good thing about HTML is that it always follows one layout. The following layout is an entire Html web page: This is the Title!Welcome to my Web-Page!This is the basic code, called a skeleton layout. You should always start your Html code in that way. Now lets explain some of the tags. The tags you saw in the example are used only once usually. Here is just an explanation of the layout tags. Each tag in the skeleton layout starts or ends a section. A section in Html declares when a certain part of the Html code is beginning. - Starts the Html section. (Begins the page) - Starts the Header section. This is the Title! - Starts (and ends) the title section. - Starts the Body section. (Main part of page) - Ends the Body section. - Ends the page.The Html section contains the entire code. The Header section contains the Title section, and some other stuff. The title section contains the text that goes in the title bar at the top of the browser window, like "'Welcome to My Page!' -Netscape." The body section is the main part of the page that contains all the text that appears in the page. HTML Tutorial - Chapter 2 Body AttributesThe Body tag has more to it than just . The tag also controls the color of the page text, the background of the page, and others. An attribute to any tag (in this instance, it will be the tag) is an extra keyword that can be set inside the tag that allows for certain things to be set. To set a body attribute, like the background of the page, you simply include the option in the tag and what it is set to. Example: vlink="white"> There are a few body attributes that you will learn for now. Background, text, link, and active link. The Background is controlled with either BGCOLOR="color" or BACKGROUND="http://www.examplesite.com/background.gif" If the Background you want is a solid color, like black, blue, white, red, etc, you use the BGCOLOR option. BGCOLOR accepts BGCOLOR="blue" (a color name), or BGCOLOR="Hexadecimal number." A Hex number can do more variant colors, such as gold, turquoise, navy blue, and most other colors, while just typing a color name like blue or white is limited to simple colors. A few simple colors are blue, white, black, green, yellow, orange.... Mostly first, secondary, and tertiary colors. The BACKGROUND option is for if you want to use a picture as a background. You must use the URL of the picture, like: Graphics in any web page must be in either GIF (.gif) or JPEG (.jpg) format. The next option is text. Text is the color of all normal text in the page. It follows this format: text="color" or text="hexnumber." This follows the same routine as inBackground; a color name will accept simple colors, a hex number can do more exotic colors. The next option is link. This is the color of all links on the page. It's format is the same as the text option. The next is alink. This is the color of a link that is being clicked on. For example, ifthere is a link to www.microsoft.com and you click on it, until you let go, that linkwill turn to the alink color. It follows the same format as the text option. The last option you will learn is vlink. Vlink sets the color of all links that have been visited in the past. It follows the same format as the text option. NOTE: If you leave out an option in the Body tag, it will be set to a default color. HTML Tutorial - Chapter 3 Text TagsNow that you've learned body options, you can now learn how to add text to the body section, and how to make it look FuNkY! Before, you learned a little about tags and how they work. Tags are important to text because they can change the way text looks, and acts. Lets take a look at an example to learn a few basic tags. Text ExampleThis is my first, ordinary paragraph.
This is my second, bold paragraph.
This is my third, italics paragraph.
This is my fourth, underlined paragraph.
This is my last, centered paragraph.The tag stands for paragraph. It starts text on a new line. Without
, all the text would be in one line and wrapped around, and it would look pretty messed up.In the second paragraph, there was a (or for full) tag. Bold makes all text inside of it become bolder. As you learned before, some tags need to be ended. This is one of them. If you didn't end a bold tag, everything after the would be bold, even text that you didn't want to be bold. To end a tag (stop what a tag is going, use this format: . Thus, to end a bold tag, you use (or for short, ). stands for Italics. Anything after and before will become italic, or slanted. stands for underlined. Anything after and before is underlined. sets the alignment for text. You could also center text by using align="center">Centered Text
, but is a lot easier. Center makes textgo in the center of the screen. You can also use:This sets alignment to the left.
This sets alignment to the right of the screen.
NOTE: If you use option, like to set alignment, in order to stop it's effect you must end it, by using
. Now you will learn how to change the size of text. It follows the same format of or ; Modified text, and they too can be combined with or whatever as a combination: Text SizesThis is HUGE!
This is big.
This is a little large.
This is normal.
This is quite small.
This is TINY.
To modify text size, as you saw, the tag is Text or or what have you, so that you could get a huge, bold, italic, and underlined text. A few tags don't modify text, but they do put something into the body, such as a line. To put a line, which can nicely seperate a section on your page, like if you had a table of contents and a story paragraph. To put in a line, use
anywhere you want. Example: A line!Section1
(Seperated) Section 2HTML Tutorial - Chapter 4 ImagesNo page is a page without images, or graphics, Images give an entire light to a web page, not to mention setting the atmosphere for the page. Images are quite simple. Any image must be in either JPEG or GIF format. To put an image in a page, here is an example:
Graphics!This page has graphics!
A few rules of images:#1. When linking to ANY URL (such as www.lalasite.com/puppy.gif), you must ALWAYS have http:// unless the picture is in your web site server. If it is a local picture, (in your server account), the link can just be puppy.gif or kitty.jpg. #2. The general primary formats for web graphics are GIF and JPG. Some browsers (like IE) might support things like BMP, and newer browsers have limited support for the PNG format, but to be sure, it's a safe bet to use GIF or JPG image files. #3. Pictures can be formatted in a few ways. Two text tags can format a picture,
and
. If you want to start a picture on a new line, or center it, you can use or
to do so. tag has a few options to change the size of a picture, if you wanted to make a thumbnail sized preview of a picture for example. The format is height="pixelnumber" width="pixelnumber>. #4. Pictures must be uploaded onto a server. Just because a picture is on your computer doesn't mean that everyone can see it. It has to be on a webserver, otherwise only you will be able to see it. HTML Tutorial - Chapter 5 Linking PagesIf you want to have multiple pages, or want to link to a favorite site of yours, you must place a link in your page. A link is easy to do: Click here to go! Anything between the tag and the tag becomes a link. When you click on a link, it takes you to the page. Here are some examples: Yahoo!
My Hobbies! The following will not work:Yahoo? The same goes for linking pictures in chapter 4 You can make pictures link to sites as well:
Some browsers automatically place a border around images that are links. To disable this, put border=0 in the tag. HTML Tutorial - Chapter 6TablesTables are effective in making graphical or text presentations look sharp. It can nicely organize a list of data. They form boxes around whatever you want and can split into smaller sections, called cells. To start a table you begin with a tag,
. declares a few things about the table. The things are defined by using them as options in the tag. For example,