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Chapter 3. Computer Networks and the Web

HTML: Your First Web Page

We get to know HTML and learn to create a simple web page with a heading, text, a list, a link and a picture using tags.

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HTML is a markup language for writing web pages. It is not a programming language: through tags, HTML tells the browser which part of the text is a heading, a paragraph, a picture or a link. A tag is written in angle brackets, and most tags come in pairs: an opening <p> and a closing </p>.

A page is structured like this: <html> wraps the whole document, <head> holds the page title (<title>), and <body> contains everything visible on the screen. The main tags are <h1>…<h6> for headings, <p> for a paragraph, <ul> and <li> for a bulleted list, <a href="..."> for a link, and <img src="..." alt="..."> for a picture. We type the text in an editor (Notepad), save the file with the .html extension and open it in a browser.

Here is the simplest example of a page: ``html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head><title>My page</title></head> <body> <h1>Hello!</h1> <p>I am learning computer science.</p> <a href="https://informatik.uz">Go to the site</a> </body> </html> ` Change the text, save the file and refresh the page in the browser (F5`): the changes appear at once.

Key takeaways

  • HTML is a markup language for web pages, not a programming language.
  • Tags are written in angle brackets; most come in opening and closing pairs.
  • A page consists of <html>, <head> and <body> parts.
  • The file is saved with the .html extension and opened in a browser.

Practice tasks

  1. Type the example above in Notepad, save it as sahifa.html and open it in a browser. Change the heading to your own name.
  2. Add to the page an <h2> heading “My favorite subjects” and a <ul> list with at least three items.
  3. Add one picture (<img>) and a link (<a>) to a site to the page; do not forget the alt text for the picture.

Review questions

Test yourself: think first, then reveal the answer.

  1. 1Is HTML a programming language?
    No, it is a markup language: it describes the structure of a page rather than running algorithms.
  2. 2What goes inside the `<body>` tag?
    Everything visible on the page: text, pictures, links.

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