Hi and welcome to Webtv basic HTML, by request I have made these pages to help all that want to learn HTML, these pages will cover all aspects of HTML and I will be as basic as possible.

These are the basic tags for HTML, also, always put your beginning <HTML> tag in the upper left corner of the page.

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>

</TITLE>

<BODY>

</BODY>

</HEAD>

</HTML>

HTML stands for HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE, and is the language that the computer understands as a code for things you want the computer to do.

Remember typing in school? Well these tags are doing the same thing, breaking down the page.

These are the start of the tags:

The body tag

Here is a list of body tags and what they do!

The body is where most of your text will go, just like when you were in typing class in school.

1. <HTML><BODY BGCOLOR=?? TEXT=? COLOR?></HTML>

This tag above will change the color of your text and background.

A. <BODY BACKGROUND="URL-OF-IMAGE">

This tag above will put an image such as a gif, jpg or a background on the page.

4. If you use the body tab you MUST close it off at the end of the page with this </BODY>.

If you want BOLD WORDS do this:

<html><B> YOUR WORDS HERE</B></html>

FONTS

"FONT" is a word that tells the computer that you want to change the size and/or color of words.

<HTML><FONT SIZE=1-7 COLOR=???>YOUR WORDS HERE</FONT></HTML>

FONT SIZE 1

FONT SIZE 2

FONT SIZE 3

FONT SIZE 4

FONT SIZE 5

FONT SIZE 6

FONT SIZE 7

FONT EFFECTS

FONT EFFECT SHADOW

SHADOW

Here's the code:

<html><FONT SIZE=?? EFFECT=SHADOW COLOR=??>WORDS HERE</FONT></html>

Note: font emboss and relief only show up on dark backgrounds.

FONT EMBOSS

EMBOSS

Here's the code:

<html><FONT SIZE=?? EFFECT=EMBOSS>WORDS HERE</FONT></html>

FONT RELIEF

RELIEF

Here's the code:

<HTML><FONT SIZE=?? EFFECT=RELIEF>WORDS HERE</FONT><HTML>

These codes change the way the text looks.

<html><CITE>IS ACITATION TEXT</CITE></html>

<CODE> IS A COMPUTER CODE TEXT</CODE>
<SAMP>IS A LITERAL TEXT</SAMP>
<BLOCKQUOTE>IS A BLOCKQUOTE TEXT</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DFN>IS A DEFINITION TEXT</DFN>
<EM>IS EMPHASIZED TEXT</EM>
<KBD>IS KEYBOARD TEXT</KBD>
<STRONG>IS STRONG TEXT</STRONG>
<VAR>IS VARIBLE TEXT</VAR>
<U>UNDERLINES TEXT</U>
<S>STRIKES TEXT</S>
<I>ITALIC TEXT</I>

LINKS

What are links? Links are what you click on to go to the next place you want to go, those underlined blue words are called links. Now I will show you how to make them.

Say I wanted you to have you go to my HTML list page: GO HERE

ok, here's the code,

<html> <A HREF="http://www.oocities.org/SoHo/Studios/5631/html.html">GO HERE</A></html>

It's that simple, this is what they call a HOT LINK you just put:

<html> <A HREF="HTTP://URL">GO HERE</A></html>

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