Structure of HTML & Basic Tags
- HTML as a markup language used to design static web pages or web documents.
- For this the instructions or statements of HTML are called as Tags which must be used in < & > (angular brackets) like <FONT>, <Head> ,etc.
- These tags can be either paired/container tag or empty or unpaired tag.
- To use this, the standard structure used is:
<html>
<head>
<title> Any meaningful title </title>
</head>
<body>
---contents of web page-----
</body>
</html>
- As per the above structure, HTML supports basic tags like:
i) <HTML> - it is one type of paired tag, which shows start and end part of any web page. Between this other supporting tags to be enclosed.
- By this, browser understands what is the format of web page or contents.
Syntax :
<HTML>
----
</HTML>
it is one type of paired
tag, which is used for:
n
Assigning proper title to web page.
n Include script code using <Script> tag
as:
<script language=”JavaScript”>
---
</script>
Syntax :
<HEAD>
----
</HEAD>
iii) <Title>
it is one type of paired tag, which is used to assign a valid and easy to understand title to page. It must be enclosed in <Head> tag.
Syntax : <Head>
<Title> any Title </Title>
</Head>
iv) <Body> - it is one type of paired tag, which is used to enclose the contents of web page
to be displayed in browser.
-
Browser ignores the
tag and shows the rest of the contents in browser.
-
<Body> - it is
one paired tag, it is used to create body
of web page. It is used to show different
contents like Tables,
images, hyperlinks, audio,
video, etc.
- With <body> tag, following attributes can be used :
i)
bgcolor- using this
property, background color to web page can be applied.
Color can be applied in following ways:
a) color name –
any color name can be
used as:
<body bgcolor=”red”>
b) using RGB code- by combining color codes of Red, Green & Blue color, new color can be applied. For this it must start with “#” as:
<body bgcolor=#786523>
i) background – by this any graphical image can be set in web page background. That image can be from current location or any other location as:
<body background=”sun.jpg”>
Or
<body background=”D:\images\sun.jpg”>
<Body> tag can also enclose <script> code.
Tags of HTML are generally classified as:
i)Empty Tag – Tag without content called as Empty tag. Such tag don’t uses any closing tag.
- Element without closing tag is called empty tag.
e.g. <br>
ii)Container / Paired Tag – Element which is having corresponding closing tag is called Container / Paired Tag.
e.g. <BODY> --------</BODY>
<FONT>--------</FONT>
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