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In our HTML tutorial you will learn how to use HTML to create your own Web pages.

HTML is very easy to learn! 

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HTML Examples

Learn by 100 examples! With our editor, you can edit HTML, and click on a test button to view the result. Try-It-Yourself!

HTML Quiz Test

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HTML References

At W3Schools you will find complete HTML references about tags, attributes, colors, entities, and more. HTML 4.01 References.


Table of Contents

HTML Basic

The World Wide Web
This chapter explains what the World Wide Web is. It explains the difference between a Web browser and a Web server. It also explains how a Web browser (like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) fetches and displays a Web page.

HTML Introduction
This chapter explains what HTML is, and how HTML "markup tags" are used to format a Web page. It tells you how to create an HTML file, and how to view it in your browser. It also explains how to view the source of an HTML document, and gives you some basic guidelines for using HTML tags.

HTML Elements
This chapter explains how HTML documents are made up of HTML elements, and how HTML elements are defined using HTML tags.

Basic HTML Tags
The best way to learn HTML is to look at others examples. In this chapter we have created some easy examples to teach you the basic HTML tags.
With our new  HTML editor you can both study the examples and edit them on your own.

HTML Formatting
This chapter uses the same simple HTML editor that you find in the previous chapter to demonstrate HTML formatting tags. It shows the text formatting tags, the computer output tags, the citation tags, the quotation tags, and the definition tags.

HTML Character Entities
Some characters have a special meaning in HTML, like the less than sign (<) that defines the start of an HTML tag. If we want the browser to actually display a less than sign, we have to use a character entity in the HTML source.

HTML Links
This chapter demonstrates HTML link tags. You will see how to insert and control the links on your page. A mail link is also demonstrated.

HTML Frames
This chapter demonstrates HTML frame tags. You will see how to make vertical, horizontal, and mixed framesets.

HTML Tables
This chapter demonstrates different HTML tables. It shows how to insert a table header, a table border, and an image in a table cell. It also shows how to define cells that span more than one row or column, and how to control the white space between the cell content and its borders.

HTML Lists
This chapter demonstrates different HTML lists. It shows different types of ordered and unordered lists. It also shows how you can nest lists in an HTML document.

HTML Forms
This chapter demonstrates HTML forms and input tags. It shows how to create text fields, check-boxes, and radio-buttons. It also shows how to put the input fields in a form with a submit button. When the submit button is pushed the "user-input" is sent to another file.

HTML Images
This chapter demonstrates HTML image tags. It shows how to insert an image, how to align an image. It also shows how to create an image-map with click-able regions.

HTML Background
This chapter demonstrates how to use HTML backgrounds.

HTML Advanced

HTML Layout
This chapter demonstrates how to use HTML tables to format the layout of an HTML page.

HTML Fonts
This chapter demonstrates the HTML <font> tag. It shows how to change the font type and size of HTML text output.

Why use HTML 4.0
This chapter explains why you should start using HTML 4.0, and forget about earlier versions of HTML like HTML 3.2.

HTML Styles
This chapter demonstrates HTML style tags. It shows how to use styles in an HTML document, and how to link to an external style sheet. It also shows how to define sections in a document.

HTML Head
This chapter demonstrates HTML header tags. It shows the different tags that go inside the head element.

HTML Meta
This chapter demonstrates HTML meta tags. It explains the use of meta tags for providing description and keyword information.

HTML URL
This chapter explains Uniform Resource Locators - the method by which documents and data are addressed on the Web.

HTML Scripting
This chapter demonstrates HTML script tags. It shows how to insert a script in an HTML document, and how to handle browsers that do not support scripting. It also shows how to insert an object to an HTML document.

Roll your own Web Server
After you have studied our examples, you might wonder how you can publish your work. This chapter tells you how.


HTML Examples/Quiz

HTML Examples
Lots of HTML Examples !!!

HTML Quiz Test
Test your own HTML skills !!!


HTML References

HTML 4.01 Quick List
As the name implies: An HTML 4.01 Quick Reference, like the one that you would like to put in your pocket.

HTML 4.01 Reference
Our complete HTML 4.01 reference is an alphabetical list of all HTML tags with lots of  examples and tips. The reference also indicates the elements that are deprecated in HTML 4.01, and the browsers version support for each tag.

HTML 4.01 Standard Attributes
Each tag has attributes. The attributes for each tag are listed in the examples in the "HTML 4.01 Reference" page. The attributes listed here are the core and language attributes all the tags has as standard (with few exceptions). This reference describes the attributes, and shows the possible values for each.

HTML 4.01 Event Attributes
All the event attributes the tags has as standard (with few exceptions). This reference describes the attributes, and shows the possible values for each.

HTML ASCII Reference
This is a 7-BIT ASCII reference, defining the original ASCII codes used for transmitting HTML data over the Web.

HTML 4.01 Entities
This chapter demonstrate how to write special characters in HTML. In HTML there are some characters, like "&" and "<", that have a special meaning. If we want to write an ampersand sign in the HTML source we have to write the mnemonic &amp; or the entity code &#38;. 

HTML Colors
This chapter demonstrate HTML colors. You can click on one of the colors to see it as a background with each of the text colors.

HTTP Messages
This chapter list HTTP Status Messages.


Computer Joke

Customer: "Should I hit the letter zero or the number zero?"


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