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HTML, Tags and Nesting
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HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language.
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HYPER - being the opposite of linear. Computer programs once had to move in a linear manner. This before this... this before this... and so on. This language does not hold to that and allows the person viewing the WWW page to go anywhere, anytime they want.
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TEXT - plain English text, such as this.
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MARK-UP - Marking-up is the process of adding notation to text to indicate how it should be displayed. The mark-up notations in an html document are often called Tags.
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LANGUAGE - because it is a language (of a sort!)
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Tags or Mark-up Notations
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These are the formatting codes used in HTML documents. Tags indicate how parts of the document will appear when viewed on a web browser. They are usually used in pairs of Opening < > and Closing </> tags. The required text, image or link is then placed between the these sets of tags;
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<P> Your text goes here </P>
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(By the way the letter P in between the tags indicates a Paragraph but that's another story.)
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The <HTML> Tag
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These are the first and last tag on a Web page. They tell the browser where the HTML starts and finishes. They look like this - <HTML> </HTML>
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Nesting
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The term nesting refers to placement of tag sets one within another e.g. <P> <B> <I>. It is important that when the closing tags are placed they are written in the reverse order. </I> </B> </P>.
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