Vdiscussion » XHTML http://vdiscussion.com Vinoth Kumar's Discussion Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:34:03 +0000 en hourly 1 Tags and Elements of HTML http://vdiscussion.com/tags-and-elements-of-html/ http://vdiscussion.com/tags-and-elements-of-html/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:57:30 +0000 admin http://vdiscussion.com/?p=96 If you look at the first and last lines of the code for the last example, you will see pairs of angle brackets containing the letters <html>. The two brackets and all of the characters between them are known as a tag, and there are lots of tags in the example. All of the tags in this example come in pairs; there are
opening tags and closing tags. The closing tag is always slightly different than the opening tag in that it has a forward slash character before the characters </html>.

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The special meaning these tags give is a description of the structure of the document. The opening tag says “This is the beginning of a heading” and the closing tag says “This is the end of a heading.”Without the markup, the words in the middle would just be another bit of text; it would not be clear that they formed the heading.
Now look at the paragraph of text about the company; it is held between an opening <p> tag and a closing </p> tag. And, you guessed it, the p stands for paragraph.

As you can see, the markup in this example actually describes what you will find between the tags, and the added meaning the tags give is describing the structure of the document. For example, between the opening <p> and closing </p> tags are paragraphs and between the <h1> and </h1> tags is a heading. Indeed, the whole HTML document is contained between opening <html> and closing </html> tags.
If you were wondering why there is a number 1 after the h , it is because in HTML and XHTML there are six levels of headings. A level 1 heading is sometimes used as the main heading for a document (such as a chapter title), which can then contain subheadings, with level 6 being the smallest. This allows you to structure your document appropriately with subheadings under the main heading.

]]> http://vdiscussion.com/tags-and-elements-of-html/feed/ 0 Sample HTML program discussion http://vdiscussion.com/sample-html-program-discussion/ http://vdiscussion.com/sample-html-program-discussion/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:51:56 +0000 admin http://vdiscussion.com/?p=93 HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the most widely used language onWeb. As its name suggests, HTML is a markup language, which may sound complicated, although really you come across markup every day. Markup is just something you add to a document to give it special meaning; for example, when you use a highlighter pen you are marking up a document. When you are marking up a document for the Web, the special meaning you are adding indicates the structure of the document, and the markup indicates which part of the document is a heading, which parts are paragraphs, what belongs in a table, and so on. This markup in turn allows a Web browser to display your document appropriately.

When creating a document in a word processor, you can distinguish headings using a heading style (usually with a larger font) to indicate which part of the text is a heading. You can use the Enter (or Return) key to start a new paragraph. You can insert tables into your document, create bulleted lists,
and so on. When marking documents up for the Web you are performing a very similar process. HTML and XHTML are the languages you use to tell aWeb browser where the heading is for aWeb page, what is a paragraph, what is part of a table and so on, so it can structure your document and render it properly. But what is the difference between HTML and XHTML?Well, first you should know that there are several versions of both HTML and XHTML, but don’t let that bother you—it all sounds a lot more complicated than it really is. Whereas there are several versions of HTML, each version just adds functionality on top of its predecessor (like a new version of some software might add some features or a new version of a dictionary might add a few extra words), or offers better ways of doing things that were already in earlier versions. So, you do not need to learn each version of HTML and XHTML, nor do you need to focus on one variation. This book teaches you all you need to know to writeWeb pages using HTML and XHTML. Indeed, as I mentioned in the Introduction, XHTML is just like the latest version of HTML, as you will see shortly (although to be accurate, while it is almost identical to the last version of HTML, it is technically HTML’s successor).

Sample Code :

<html>
<head>
<title>Vdiscussion: About Us</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>About Vdiscussion.com</h1>
<p>Vdiscussion is free educational site
</p>
</body>
</html>

Save this code as filename.html.

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