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HTML
*With HTML you can create your own Web site.
*HTML is very easy to learn!
*You will enjoy it!

What is HTML?
*HTML is a language for describing web pages.
*HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
*HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
*A markup language is a set of markup tags
*HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

HTML Tags
*HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags
*HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
*HTML tags normally come in pairs like and
*The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
*Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags.

HTML Documents - Web Pages
*HTML documents describe web pages
*HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
*HTML documents are also called web pages
*The purpose of a web browsers (like Internet Explorer) is to read HTML documents and *display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to *interpret the content of the page:

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What Do You Need?
*You don't need any tools to learn HTML at W3Schools.
*You don't need any HTML editor
*You don't need a web server
*You don't need a web site

Editing HTML
*In this tutorial we use a plain text editor (like Notepad) to edit HTML. We believe this is the best way to learn HTML.
*However, professional web developers often prefer HTML editors like FrontPage or Dreamweaver, instead of writing plain text.

Creating Your Own Test Web
*If you just want to learn HTML, skip the rest of this chapter.
*If you want to create a test web on your own computer, just copy the 3 files below to your desktop.
*(Right click on each link, and select "save target as" or "save link as")
mainpage.htm
page1.htm
page2.htm
*After you have copied the files, you can double-click on the file called "mainpage.htm" and see your first web site in action.

Use Your Test Web For Learning
*We suggest you experiment with everything you learn at W3Schools by editing your web files *with a text editor (like Notepad).
Note: If your first web site contains HTML markup tags you have not learned yet, don't panic. *You will learn much more HTML in the next chapters.

HTM or HTML Extension?
*When you save an HTML file, you can use either the .htm or the .html extension. We use .htm in our examples. It is a habit from the past, when the software only allowed three letters in file extensions.
*With new software it is perfectly safe to use .html.

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