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Written by Stephen Brennan
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Thursday, 22 December 2005 |
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Page 2 of 4 Word Count: 1788
The < head> section is then closed off with a < /head>.
That's an important part of the html code. Every tag that contains an
instruction needs to be 'finished' by using the same tag with a '/' in
front. This is telling the program that this particular instruction type is
finished. It's like saying 'over' at the end of a radio transmission.
There are too many different types of instructional tags to cover in a simple
article, but covering a few of the most common ones will give you the basic
idea. Next is the <body> tag. This is the start of the part of the
web page that will be visible in the browser. In the case of my webpage example,
the <body> tag is long because it contains some specific
instructions, which apply to the entire web page. They concern the background of
the page (in this case an image is being used for a background that forms the
vertical stripes), the colour of the page text and the different colours of any
'hyperlinks' on the page (before during and after they are being clicked by
someone).
Obviously, it would be a huge task to systematically explain each entry as I
have done up to now, but suffice to say, there are various kinds of tags
containing coded instructions that tell the browser (or whatever program is used
to produce the visual representation of the HTML code) what to put in the web
page, where to put it, what colour to make it etc. Just with regard to colours,
all colours of the rainbow are represented by a six digit system called the
'hexadecimal' system, which we don't need to get into except to say that each
code that looks like '#A1B2C3' represents a particular colour..
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