A Simple HTML Document

First Home Page
View with a WWW Browser
Viewing Source Code
HTML

Below is the first draft of a personal home page.

<HTML>
<!-- Home Page of Mr. X., March 1996  -->
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Mr. X</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Mr. X</H1>
<PRE>
Address     Universiteit of Amsterdam
            FNWI
            Plantage Muidergracht 24
            1018 TV Amsterdam
Office      Euclides, x.yy
Telephone   +31 20 525xxxx
Telefax     +31 20 525xxxx
E-mail      X@science.uva.nl
</PRE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

View with a WWW browser

HTML documents can be created by ordinary text editors, but appear only nicely formatted when viewed by WWW browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.. See x.html for a separate view on the above HTML code. The main part looks as follows

Mr. X

Address     Universiteit of Amsterdam
            FNWI
            Plantage Muidergracht 24
            1018 TV Amsterdam
Office      Euclides, x.yy
Telephone   +31 20 525xxxx
Telefax     +31 20 525xxxx
E-mail      X@science.uva.nl

Viewing Source Code

We shall assume that you use Netscape as WWW browser. The source code of HTML documents that you find on WWW servers can be looked at by selecting the View/Source menu item. The easiest and fastest way of learning to write HTML code is probably looking at and mimicking examples of HTML documents of your colleages.

HTML

stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the language used to prepare WWW hypertext documents. HTML contains

ordinary text
elements of the document, like headings, paragraphs, lists, images, hypertext links, and so on. These elements are markede by tags. For example, <H1> and </H1> mark a heading of largest size.

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