From the course: Creating HTML Layouts with InDesign
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What is HTML? - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Creating HTML Layouts with InDesign
What is HTML?
- Before we go any further I want to provide you with a brief introduction to HTML itself, just in case it's new to you. If you already feel comfortable with HTML feel free to skip ahead to the next video. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. The Hyper part really just means better than, so better than regular text. The Markup aspect refers to the tagging inside the language. Here's an example of HTML tagging. Tags are encapsulated inside of < and > signs and they're closed with a /. So you can see the opening HTML tag at the top and the closing HTML tag at the bottom. There's also an opening and closing head tag, where we'd store any metadata, and there's also a body tag. And that's where any content that's actually viewable in the web browser is stored. So here's another example of some HTML Source code. This is focusing on content inside of the body tag. So here we have a h1 tag that says Big Headline. The h1 is the biggest headline in HTML. And then there's a p tag, which…
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