Demystifying HTML
For most changes, the WYSIWYG editor will be sufficient, and you won't need to worry about the HTML at all. But sometimes it doesn't seem to be working, and it would be so much easier if that code made sense. That is what this page is for.
This is a quick tutorial to make content changes a little less scary.
What is HTML?
HTML stands for: HyperText Markup Language. It is the main markup language for displaying information in a web browser.
HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>), within the web page content. In fact, The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visible web pages. The browser does not display the tags themselves, instead it uses them to interpret the content of the page. HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. HTML allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items.
HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>, although there are some exceptions, for example <img>. The first tag in a pair is the opening tag and the second is the closing tag. In between these tags is the content that will by affected by the tag. For example, take the the line of HTML:
<h1>This is a Header</h1>
The Text "This is a Header" will be a lage heading, because it is between the two <h1> tags. Any text outside the pair will be unaffected.
*Note: Anything that comes inbetween two tags that say <style> or <script> is not HTML. They are used to add other code languages to a web page.
