Introduction to HTML

Introduction to
html
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WHAT IS HTML
HTML(Hypertext Markup language) is the language used to
create web pages.
HTML language uses tags to create the web pages.
Browsers read these tags to display the output to the user.
Note that html is interpreted browsers and hence we don't
need to compile it.
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TAGS
Tags are Predefined keywords inside angular brackets.
Example : To represent body tag in html, we need to put it inside
angular brackets like <body> . Now this is how we write body tag
inside html page.
Example of other tags are <html>, <p> <h1> etc.
Let's consider the example of a building. So how we create a
building. We add bricks, tiles, pillars and other materials in a prope
order, and then we use cement and create a building. Similarly for
a web page we add materials like different tags and finally add
them up to create a web page.
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HTML FILE
STRUCTURE
The root tag is <html>
It has two child tags as <head>
and <body>
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DOCTYPE
TAG
Document Type Declaration or DOCTYPE declares which version of
html is being followed by the document. Note that doctype is not a
html tag, it is just used to tell the browser about the version of
the html to follow for the current code. Note that <!Doctype>
should be the first tag in html code.
In html version, there are three types of DOCTYPES can be used :
Strict, Transitional, Frameset.
Example:
This is an example of Transitional type doc type.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML4.01 Transitional
//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

HEAD
TAG
The head tag contains the header information, link to scripts and
metadata about the web page. The <head> tag is placed outside
the body tag. Let's look at a code snippet having doctype, head
and body tag included. The <title> tag is contained inside head
tag. It is used to show the title of the web page.
1. title - specifies the title for a web page
2. meta - specifies the content type
3. link - used to call an external CSS page
4. style - specifies that CSS is written inside this tag
5. script - specifies that JavaScript is written inside this tag
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Head Tags has Child Tags

META
TAGS
keywords attribute defines keywords for search engines:
<meta name="keywords" content="clothes, fashion, fashion
accessories">
Description attribute describes your web page:
<meta name="description" content="Buy fashin clothes and
accessories online" >
Revised attribute define the last revision of your page:
<meta name="revised" content="Hege Refsnes, 23/10/2011" >
http-equiv attribute Refreshes document every 10 seconds:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10">
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FIRST
HTML
Open any editor of your choice or use notepad and type in the
code shown below. After typing it save it as first.html file and
open it in a web browser. Hey..! you have created first web page.
<html>
<body>
<h1> Hi .. I am a heading</h1>
</body>
</html>
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HTML
BASICS
Lets now dissect the code. The first tag is the root tag which is <html>.
All html files need to have <html> as the starting tag.
The body tag contains the tags that display the output to the browser. We
have <h1> tag which is the headline tag. We have <h1> to <h6> tags
where <h1> has the largest font size and <h6> has the smallest.
Whatever content we write inside the h1 tag, it will become a headline
with bold and increased font size. Next is the closing </body> tag
followed by the closing </html> tag.
Note that we add a slash in the beginning to close it. So if the beginning is
<body> tag, to end the tag we add a slash and it becomes </body>.
Lets understand other html tags in the next section.
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TYPES OF
TAGS
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Standard tags : Standard HTML tags have opening and closing tag.
Ex : <body></body>, <h1></h1>
Self closing tags: These are tags which don't have a closing pair of
tags.
Ex: <br> tag which is line break.

BLOCK ELEMENTS
VS
INLINE ELEMENTS
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BLOCK LEVEL
TAGS
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Block level tags: Block level tags add a line break for the content
Ex: <h1>, <p> for paragraph tags.
A block element will take the complete horizontal area of the web page. So,
you add a block element, the next element will be placed in next line only.

INLINE
TAGS
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Inline tags: Inline tags don't add a line break. Ex: bold(<b>) tag
which makes the content in bold letters.

IMPORTANT
TAGS
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Paragraphs: For paragraph we use <p> tag.
Note that closing this tag is optional, but it's good to have the
opening and closing tag.
Ex: <p> Hello, i am a text inside paragraph</p> . Note that
paragraph is a block level tag.
Links: To display a link we use the <a> tag.
Ex: <a href = “http://google.com ”>Click to Google</a>.

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Here href is the source of the link. Notice that we have added a
property to the tag using a href keyword. We call these
properties as attributes.
<b> is for making text bold, <i> is for making text italic ,<em>
for emphasizing a text and <u> is for underline.
<img> tag is used to display an image. Note that it is a self
closing tag. Means we don't need to close it.
For <img> tag we have attributes namely width and height to
adjust the height and width of the image. Let’s create a snippet
of code to display an image, with a link and some text
formatting!
IMPORTANT
TAGS

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Create a file with the name mypage.html and write the code below. To add a comment
enclose the comment like this <!-- this is a comment→
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>This is the title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p> I am text inside a paragraph</p>
<em> I am a emphasized comment and see the two line break below me!</em>
<br/>
<i>I will be italicised</i>
<pre>maintains the content written as such </pre>
<u>I will have an underline</u>
<img src = “myimage.jpg” width = “200” height = “150”>
<hr/>
<a href = “http://google.com”>Google me</a>
<!-- I am a comment and will not be visible in the page →
<h1> I am the bigges heading</h1>
<h2> I am the smaller heading</h2>
<h6> I am the smalles heading</h6>
</body>
</html>
TRY
EXAMPLE

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HTML table can be considered as group of rows where each of them contains a group
of cells.
A table can be created using the below tags
<table> element which acts as main container
<tr> element which acts as row container
<td> element which defines a single cell.
Let's look at an example of creating table in the next slide
CREATE
TABLES
<table>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1</td>
<td>Cell 2</td>
<td>Cell 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cell 4</td>
<td>Cell 5</td>
<td>Cell 6</td>
</tr>
</table>

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LISTS
<OL TYPE="1">
<LI> Item one </LI>
<LI> Item two </LI>
<OL TYPE="I" >
<LI> Sublist item No
one </LI>
<LI> Sublist item No
two </LI>
<OL TYPE="i">
<LI> Sub-sublist
item No one </LI>
<LI> Sub-sublist
item No two </LI>
</OL>
</OL>
</OL>
<UL>
<LI> Item One </LI>
<LI> Item Two </LI>
<UL TYPE="circle">
<LI> Item Three </LI>
<LI> Item Four </LI>
<UL TYPE="square">
<LI> Item Five
</LI>
<LI> Item Six</LI>
</UL>
</UL>
</UL>
Ordered Lists Unordered Lists

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HTML
FORMS
Forms are used to enter data and send the data to the server. Let's have a look at a
simple form example.
<form name = “myform.html” action = “submit.php” method = “GET”>
First Name <input type = “text” name =“first name”>
<input type = “submit” value = “submit me” name = “submit”>
</form>
In the above example we have a form tag. The attribute name represents name of
the form tag, action represent the page to which the form data is sent and method
represent the way of data transfer. We have GET and POST methods.
Inside the form tag we have nested the input tag which creates a text box . Again
the input tag needs to have a name and type attribute to represent name and type
respectively.
Then we have the input with type as submit which creates a submit button. Now go
ahead and write this form to test it yourself.

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INPUT
TYPES
There are many input types available for forms. Some important input
types are text input, text area, select, checkbox and radio buttons.
input
a. text
b. password
c. radio
d. checkbox
e. submit
f. reset
select
textarea
button
We will cover these in our code section.

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META
TAGS
Metadata is information about data.
The <meta> tag is kept inside the <head> element.
The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document.
Metadata is not be displayed on the web page. It is used to
provide information about data to browsers, web services and
search Engines!
Meta elements are typically used to specify page description,
keywords and other metadata.

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<DIV>
TAGS
The <div> tag defines a section of a web page. It is a block level
tag.
You can use the DIV element to divide our web page into
sections and to give properties to the content using CSS(we will
discuss about CSS in the next section)
Example:
<div>
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
</div>

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<SPAN>
TAGS
Span tag is similar to div tag but it's a inline tag which means
the content will not go to next line if we classify it using span
tag.
The main use of span tag is to add properties to a content
using CSS.
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