Learn How to Write HTML

You can learn how to write HTML without advanced HTML training. HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the code that helps to display text on Web pages. It is written using elements. Each element has a start tag and an end tag, and usually contains text between the tags. HTML code is not case sensitive. It can be written in all lowercase or all uppercase. It can even be written in combination of both. 

How HTML Tags Work
An element containing a link looks like this:

Home Page

The start tag is . It tells the browser the location of a new page. The words "Home Page" are a description of the link, so that the reader will know where the link goes. The end tag of this element is . This closes the command and tells the browser to look for the next command. Without that closing tag, all of the text on a page would be a link. One of the most important lessons to learn is that tags must be closed, with the exception of the break tag (
), the only HTML tag that stands alone.

Common HTML Elements

• your text

  : This element creates a paragraph.
• This element inserts an image into the Web page. The image must be stored somewhere online to be displayed.
• your text: This element creates bold text. You can use for italic text or to underline text.

Some elements are nested, such as the table elements. This example makes a table with one row and one column.

When this is used in coding, the browser that is translating the code will ignore anything in these marks. These marks are used by a programmer to write notes or to describe the actions taking place in a section of code.

Mandatory Tags
When writing code for a page, each page must have certain things at the beginning and end of the page. If you use HTML software for coding, these elements are usually supplied automatically. The following example shows how to start and close a page.

This is my first paragraph

There are also formatting elements that can be used in combination with certain tags.

The align tag can appear inside a

or tag. The possible values are left, right and center. For example,

will center all the text inside of

tags. This formatting remains until it is changed by another tag, as in

. Simply closing a paragraph with a

In image tags, align="left" and align="right" allow you to insert an image into a paragraph and have the text wrap around it. This gives a more professional look to your Web pages.