November 2002
Beginner
432 pages
11h 44m
English
Content preview from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition
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Simple HTML
All Web pages require a fundamental set of HTML codes. Listing 17.2 shows the minimal HTML code needed to display a Web page.
Listing 17.2. A General HTML Format
<html>
<!-- This is a comment -->
<head>
<title>The window's title bar text goes here</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- The bulk of the Web page text, graphics, and HTML
code goes here -->
</body>
</html>
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The commands between the angled brackets are the HTML command tags that format the page's data and instruct the browser on how to display the page. Most HTML tags appear in pairs, such as <body> and </body>. The closing tag, indicated with a slash (/), tells the browser where the tag command ends.
You have the freedom to use as much whitespace as needed to make your HTML code ...