List 4 Structural HTML Tags
Introduction
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- Who has heard of HTML?
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- three reasons why you might want to know HTML
- Impress your friends and family!
- Create a website for a small business, or work related project
- Communicate with the people that make websites for you
Objective
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At the end of this lesson, you will list 4 HTML tags
Who Invented HTML?
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1990 Tim Berners-Lee is a contractor at CERN
[Particle physics laboratory]
[European Organization for Nuclear Research]
He creates HTML to create and navigate links between documents over the internet
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Tim Berners-Lee
How does HTML Become a Webpage
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The User enters a URL into the address bar and presses enter
The request goes to the server ….
…. the server returns data to the users computer
[HTTP response]
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The browser gets the data and parses it into JavaScript objects
Which are entities called nodes, that live in a JavaScript
’runtime’ or ’environment’
What is an HTML Tag?
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A keyword enclosed in brackets < >
<DOCTYPE!> - no closing tag
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Some ’tags’ have an opening and closing tag
<html> - opening tag
</html> - closing tag
The Four Tags You Need to Know for This Lesson
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HTML Tag Attributes
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Diagram Showing Structure
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YOUR EXERCISE [3 or 4 minutes]
- Write down the four structural tags we learned today
Check The Tags [Learning Assessment]
^ opening tags
^ closing tags
