HALT!

Tried to get your attention.

This tutorial is dead. It is replaced by a much better one at:

www.easyHTMLtutorial.com .
This is the original from which the new one was developed. The new one fixes errors in organization, clarifies some concepts, goes slower in the difficult spots and much faster in the many easy topics.
The original, here, is waiting for me to find some time to clean it up and attach it, possibly, as an historic footnote at the new site.
There are no ads at the new site. At least not now (early 2008). Maybe some day I'll get greedy, but I haven't yet. Enjoy.

Virginia's HTML — Basic Concepts

©2005, Martin Rinehart html-intro-00.html

I registered a website for my daughter so she would have a remote location to back up her college work. I asked her to put a nice front door on the site, but she didn't know the first thing about HTML. So I promised a little tutorial to teach her the basics.

It occured to me that the same tutorial would be helpful for someone writing their first javadoc, too. So here goes.

The Basic Idea

An HTML page is text, written in any good text editor, plus HTML "tags" that:

Structure the file - HTML part, HEAD part, BODY part
Specify typesetting style (headers, bold, italic)
Include graphics images
Create lists, such as this one
Lay out tables
Specify hyperlinks to other pages
And more

HTML Tags

Most tags come in <TAG> and </TAG> pairs.

Read "<TAG>" and "</TAG>" as "TAG" and "end TAG".

For examples:

Text within and tags is italic.

Text within and tags is bold.

Here's some sample HTML as you write it, and then as your browser displays it.

This sentence shows sample itaclic text, sample bold text and sample bold, italic text.

This sentence shows sample itaclic text, sample bold text and sample bold, italic text.

Getting Started

That's the basic idea, Ginny. Tomorrow I'll get you started with your first page.