Introduction to HTML

• HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is designed to specify the logical organization of a document, with important hypertext extensions.
• It is not a WYSWYG word processor such as Word or WordPerfect. This is because the same document may be viewed by many different "browsers", of very different abilities. HTML allows you to mark selections of text as titles or paragraphs, and then leaves the interpretation of these marked elements up to the browser. For example one browser may indent the beginning of a paragraph, while another may only leave a blank line.

HTML instructions divide the text of a document into blocks called elements. These can be divided into two broad categories

• those that define how the BODY of the document is to be displayed by the browser, and
• those that define information "about" the document, such as the title or relationships to other documents.