2. Introduction to HTML
HTML, or HyperText Markup Language is designed to specify
the logical organisation of a document, with important
hypertext extensions. It is not a WYSWYG word
processor such as Word or WordPerfect. This is because
the same document may be viewed by many different `browsers',
of very different abilities. Thus, for example, HTML allows
you to mark selections of text as titles or paragraphs, and then leaves the
interpretation of these marked elements up to the browser.
For example one browser may indent the beginning of a
paragraph, while another may only leave a blank line.
HTML instructions divide the text of a document into blocks called
elements. These can be
divided into two broad categories -- those that define
how the BODY of the document is to be displayed by the
browser, and those that define information `about' the
document, such as the title or relationships to other
documents. The vocabulary of these
elements and a description of the overall design of
HTML documents is given in the rest of Section 2. The
Last part of the section also describes standard naming
schemes for HTML documents and related files.
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