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Chapter 1 Introduction to Information Technology 21
HTML
Hypertext markup language (HTML) is a language used to create
documents that tell browsers how to assemble text, images, and other
content to display as a web page. The basis of HTML is tags, which are
codes that let the browser know how to display a document. Figure 1-16
shows a basic web page and the HTML used to create it.
HTML provides for basic formatting for a document. A cascading
style sheet (CSS) provides defi that control the formatting of HTML finitions
documents and other markup documents. It has become the standard for
how to control the appearance of a website.
FYI
Users can create
HTML pages directly
in Microsoft Word by
resaving the file as a fi
web page file type. This fi
file type will open in fi
the user’s default web
browser. Once saved, the
user can view the plain
text version of the fi le fi
without HTML markup
by right-clicking the
file and choosing fi
Open
with
Notepad.
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Key Applications
1.2
! DOCTYPE html
html
title
My First Web Page
/title
body
h1
Hello World!
/h1
/body
/html
Code
Web Page
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Figure 1-16. Very little code is needed to create a simple web page.