All commands in HTML are enclosed in "angle brackets" (also known as less than (<) and greater than (>) signs).
Most commands are delineated by a "start" marker and an "end" marker. The difference between the two is that the "end" marker has a slash (/) in it.
Examples:
The whole HTLP-page is surrounded by the start and end markers:
<html> and </html>.
The header is surrounded by <head> and </head>.
The body is surrounded by <body> and </body>.
The form is surrounded by <form> and </form>.
A hyper-text link looks like <a href="url">blue
text</a>.
Some commands stand by themselves:
The next-line command is <br>.
The next-paragraph command is <p>.
An image (.GIF or .JPG) is included with a command like
<img src="filename.gif">
Text appearance can be influenced by a limited number of commands:
<b>bold</b>, <i>italics</i>
and <u>underline</u>
are single letter commands.
Chapter headings are made using the
commands <h1>...</h1> through <h7>...</h7>:
As yet, HTML has no tabulation control as such, but the <table>
facility is a fairly powerful substiute:
<table><th>header<th>more<tr>
<td>left<td align=right>right<tr>
<td>just some text<td>some more text
</table>
would produce
| header | more |
|---|---|
| left | right |
| just some text | some more text |
Changing this to
<table border=2><th>header<th>more<tr>
<td>left<td align=right>right<tr>
<td>just some text<td>some more text
</table>
would produce
| header | more |
|---|---|
| left | right |
| just some text | some more text |
The table facility has many more features.
These, and many others are described in various reference works.
This reference manual
is available with this material.
This one is
one of the many publicly available manuals on the world-wide-web.
As is this one.
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