The UCF HTML Primer

The HyperText Markup Language, or HTML, is the language that pages on the World Wide Web are written in. The lessons in this primer are intended to give you a basic understanding of how to write HTML, and do not represent the full scope of everything that is possible using HTML.

There are quite a few example HTML segments in the lessons, but we will rarely show you how it would look in a browser. The reason for this is that each browser represents the elements differently, within the bounds of HTML standard, even before such considerations as user selectable fonts and window sizes and the examples only show you how your browser represents them. Please try out the examples and look at them through as many different browsers as you can, not just the one you usually use. Similarly, we deal almost exclusively with the simplest forms of the elements. Many elements have parameters that either can drastically change their behavior or are not part of the official HTML specification, but that is outside the scope of this tutorial.

Please send any comments and suggestions to Tad Simmons at simmons@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

The Lessons

  1. Basic Topics will cover six of the most fundamental HTML elements, and the Anchor element.
  2. Advanced Topics will cover the Horizontal Rule, Lists, and inline Images.
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