$Id: review-html.txt,v 1.1 2006/02/10 00:19:07 locasto Exp $ Spring 2006 COMS 1001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HTML Review 0. How do you look at the source code for a webpage in Firefox? Keyboard shortcut: Press Control+U Menubar: View>Page Source Mouse: Right Click, Select "View Page Source" 1. What does HTML stand for? HyperText Markup Language 2. What does a web (HTML) page consist of? "Tags" and "content." The tags tell the browser how to render (that is, how to draw, size, and display) the content. Tags are special commands that instruct the browser how to format the content. They are distinguishable from the content because they are usually paired (a "begin" tag and an "end" tag) and they are contained in angle brackets "<" and ">" 3. What is a good resource for learning HTML tags? Google. Or visit webmonkey.com for their "HTML Cheatsheet" 4. What are some example tags? -- signal the beginning of an HTML document. This is known as the "root" tag. -- signal the end of an HTML document
-- signal the beginning of the header for the webpage -- signal the end of the header -- signal the beginning of the body content for the webpage -- signal the end of the body content-- begin a new paragraph
-- end a paragraph