HTML Tutorial 1.1 - What is HTML?
You've probably heard of HTML, but what exactly is it? This new series will teach the basics of HTML.
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, a computer language used for the structural coding of a webpage. It can change fonts, font colors, background colors, background images, paragraph and line breaks, etc. If you want to create a webpage, it is best to learn HTML before CSS (we’ll get to that later).
Stay tuned for upcoming HTML tutorials!
DUE TO GLITCHES IN FORMATTING, REPLACE { AND } WITH THE CAROT BRACKETS < AND >. THANK YOU!
HTML Tutorial 1.2 - Basic Codes and How to Use Them
{br}
This is the BREAK tag. It will, when inserted, break the line to the next line. Example:
Line 1
{br}
Line 2
This becomes:
Line 1
Line 2
You can also use multiple BREAK tags:
Line 1
{br}
{br}
Line 2
This will cause the lines to break twice, and an empty line would be inserted in between:
Line 1
Line 2
Most HTML codes have two parts to them - the opening tag, which tells the computer when to activate the code, and the closing tag, which tells the computer when to end the code. The text normally goes in the middle. The BREAK tag is one of the few exceptions to this rule.
{p}{/p}
This is the PARAGRAPH tag. It is easy to confuse with the BREAK tag, in the way that they both end the current line and start a new one. The PARAGRAPH code has opening and closing tags and breaks more than a single line, but less than two lines. Due to this, I can not replicate the code exactly, but this should give you an idea of how to use the tag. Example:
{p}
Look, a paragraph!
{/p}
{p}
This is the second paragraph.
{/p}
This becomes (inaccurately shown):
Look, a paragraph!
This is the second paragraph.
So there you have it. You now [hopefully] have an idea of the basic codes to format the page. But how do you get your text bold, italicized, or underlined? The next lesson will teach you how to format text.
