WHAT HTML FILES LOOK LIKE

Pages written in HTML are plain text files (ASCII), which means that they contain no platform-or program-specific information. Any editor that supports text (which should be just about any editor-more about this subject in “programs to help you write HTML” later today) can read them . HTML files contain the following:

·         The text of page itself

·         HTML tags that indicate page elements, structure, formatting, and hypertext links to other pages or to included media.

 Most HTML tags look something like the following:

<the tag name> a affected text</the tag name>

The tag name itself (here, the tag name) is enclosed in brackets (<>). HTML tags generally have a beginning and an ending tag surrounding the text they affect. The beginning tag “turns on” feature (such as headings, bold, and so on), and the ending tag turns it of, closing tags have the tag name preceded by a slash (/). The opening tag (for example, <p> for paragraphs) and closing tag (for example, </p> for paragraphs) compose what is what is officially called an HTML element.