I know it was really hard for me to understand HTML at first, so I'll put it in a way anyone should understand. It takes a sort of mind set to get the concept.
HTML/XHTML is very easy once you get the concept, trust me.
Alright, so, HTML is just a big list of commands that tell the browser (Firefox, IE, etc.) what to show on a webpage.
These "commands" are surrounded by < and >. These two symbols tell the browser that a command is in between them.
So, say we want to make our text bold, how do we tell the browser to make it bold? No, you don't scream and kick it, look at the following code.
Code:
<b>This text would be bold if HTML was enabled in this post.</b>
See how the text in between the <b> and the </b>? This means that the text in between them will be bold.
Now, did you notice that the last <b> had a / behind the b? So its </b>.
The / tells the browser to stop making things bold. Its a kind of door stopper.
The commands I've been telling you about are called tags. Tags are any HTML command.
So, how does this make a webpage?
A large combination of tags create a webpage. There are set tags that do set things, such as:
Code:
<a href="http://pdnfans.freeforums.org/index.php">PdN Fans</a>
The code above links text to a URL. So the phrase PdN Fans would be linked to
index.php.
I hope this helped someone understand HTML better. It is a really fun thing to learn.
w3schools has a very in depth tutorial for it, look
here.
This tutorial is meant for those people who do not understand the concepts of HTML/coding in general. It is not meant to be a detailed description, more of a taste for starting out.
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