How does a web page work?
A web page becomes a document that is accessible over the internet because
it is written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language). HTML is simply a set of tags used to tell the web browser how
to present the document. For example, the heading of this section, How does a web page work?, is simply the text
of the heading with these tags placed before and after it: <H2> and </H2>. In other words, the web
browser sees this:
<H2>How does a web page work?</H2>
And the web browser then displays the line as you see it at the top of this section.
There are many different tags to display the variety of conventions that are
used in publishing text, such as paragraphs, spaces, bulleted lists, and hypertext links.
If you want to see how this page looks in HTML, simply choose the View
command in the top menubar and pull down to Page Source. A new page will open
displaying this page in HTML. By the way, this is an excellent way to learn HTML, which is really not a difficult
concept to master.
