Chapter 1

Creating Your First

Web Pages with

HTML and XHTML

Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML, is the formatting language in which most web pages are built. It lets you specify the contents of a web page and control how it looks in a web browser. All modern computer operating systems have browsers, so pages created using HTML can be displayed on almost any computer.An HTML file consists of plain text with tags (formatting codes), so you can create an HTML file quickly and easily using only a text editor and a browser. This chapter shows you how to start creating web pages using only the Notepad text editor and the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, both of which are included with Microsoft Windows.

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