It's been said before but must be said again that the hypertext mark-up language
is not a programming language.
That means it's pretty easy to learn. So lets jump right in.
The basic HTML tags with a few exceptions have the following format
<start-tag> contents </end-tag>in the early days of the web, all web pages had to have the following format
<HTML>Modern browsers have been programmed however to recognize any file with the .html or .htm extensions as web pages. But it's still very good practice to use the above template in any web document
<HEAD> header</HEAD>
<BODY>main contents of the page</BODY>
</HTML>
Probably the most important of all the HTML tags is the <A> tag. It's the tag that is used in creating hyper links. The format is:
<A HREF="URL">Site Name</A>.URL stand for Uniform Resource Locator. A few examples:
- http://www.sellipi.com/
- http://www.webquarry.com/~raditha/srilanka/
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/
- news://news2.linkexchange.com
And it whould create the link to Sellipi Digital Greetings This brief intro should get you started on HTML. It's so easy you can pick things up as you go along. (So long as you have the reference).<A HREF="http://www.sellipi.com/cards/">Sellipi Digital Greetings</A>.
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