HTML Notebook

*This is just a simplistic view of basic HTML. To actually see the Notes on what everything is, right click & view page source to see the code behind each element with comments.

The most basic way to create a webpage is to open up notepad and save the document as a .html file. The main page of a website will always be index.html.

Main thing's to know about HTML is:

• You use Tags & Elements.
• Tags are brackets "<>" that contain an Element.
• The Element is the instruction, telling the browser how to display the content.
• Most all tags have an opening tag & closing tag. The only difference between the 2 is the closing tag will start the element with a "/"
• Void tags are the exception like meta & img because it has no closing tag.

HTML is used to:

1. Display content on a website.
2. Set Links for navigation.
3. Create Ordered & Unordered lists.
4. Display images.
5. Create Tables and Forms

Bold - The strong element is used to make text Bold.

Italic - The em element is used to make text Italic.

The Odin Project Example of Absolute Link that opens in Same page. Contains full link, including domain name.

The Odin Project Example of Absolute Link that opens in new tab using relation attribute for security purpuses.

About Example of a Relative link as it calls file from current parent directory.

This is pretty much everything you need to know about creating a single, simple webpage using just HTML.

CSS is what is used to style a webpage or website.

JavaScript is used to control the behaviour of a webpage or site.