Continued from page 1
This is my first, hand-coded HTML page If a tag is not going to contain many lines of code, we can have opening and closing tags in same line, for instance,
.....instead of
..... This applies to all tags.
Clear till here? Now if you want to see how your page looks on your browser, load your browser, and in URL window, type complete path of your file, like
c: ewfolderfirstpage.html
and press enter.
See nothing? Don't get alarmed, and don't think you've goofed up big somewhere. We haven't yet put anything in code that should come up in browser. Yes, on browser's window title bar, you can view text that you've put within
.>From now onwards, leave your browser open, and keep pressing Refresh or Reload button to see changes, when you make them. Just remember to save modified file [File -> Save: In text editor] before refreshing.
== Step 5: ==
Now we come to body of page. Modify your page so that it looks like:
This is my first, hand-coded HTML page
tag tells browser that from now onwards, actual content of page will come into picture.We leave this section here because last stage of our First Page course shouldn't have an abrupt break. In concluding section we shall see how we can display simple text, hyperlinks and graphic files on our web page.
See you there then.
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