01:198:170 Lecture 5: CS170- Lecture 5-HTML_CSS

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: 01:198:170
• Professor: D Nesci

Document Summary

Describing a web page (html- hypertext markup language. Stored by description of what"s on the page, not the actual web page. Only store description & location (where to find) Requires less information to store & transmit. Tags= descriptive measures (words & abbreviations) that go around text & certain pieces on website. Similar to quotation marks around a quote. Enclosed in angle brackets to signify open & close, so mostly come in pairs. Angle brackets-< & >- greater than & less than symbols. Tag pair surrounds text to be formatted (or acted upon) like parentheses. Html page structure: 7 required (and very nice to have) tags. Need to have certain tags in every webpage- 5 required, 2 nice to have. 5 required tags: doctype, html, head, meta, body. 2 nice to have: and - title bar (page tab) name, and - paragraph tags. -- specifies it is an html document. The title-- shows up as the tab name.