1. The Teacher Computing HTML HyperText Markup Language

2. The Teacher Computing Language HTML is a programming language. The instructions inform the browser how to display a web page.

3. The Teacher Computing Tags Tags are sections of code placed inside Eg. The ‘body’ tag is written as Every tag must have an ‘end tag’. The end of the ‘body’ section is written Tags must be ‘nested’ and never ‘overlapping’…

4. The Teacher Computing Page sections Every page is enclosed in HTML tags. Every page has a HEAD and a BODY section. So the code for every page looks like… …. … The HEAD section contains information about the page. It is only the BODY that is displayed.

5. The Teacher Computing Attributes Tags can have attributes (properties) For example the tag can have a background colour attribute bgcolor… …assign a value to an attribute inside the start tag. Eg. A tag can have many attributes. For a full list of these attributes see.. http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19816

6. The Teacher Computing Text Text to be displayed goes in between the tags… Hello People

7. The Teacher Computing Colours Some colours are pre-defined Eg. “red”, “blue”, “gray”, “teal” Others may be expressed as hexadecimal numbers. Eg. “#FF3300” Full listing of colours can be found on the Internet Eg. http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp

8. The Teacher Computing Creating a page Type in the code on a text editor (Eg. Notepad) Save as a file with extension.htm (or.html) Open the file in a web browser.