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Introduction Requirements HTML Tags HTML Document Structure Viewing HTML Source Code

Viewing Source

From any webpage you visit you can view the HTML required to generated the webpage. Have a look at the HTML statements used to generate this page!

Looks complicated but don't worry - it's just simple commands. Once you learn about them - it's easy!

Collectively these statements are refered to as source code. Your can view the source code for any page you visit using your browser.

Viewing Source Code

To view the source of a webpage, from the View menu in your web browser (Explorer/Netscape) choose view source. A page of HTML code will appear. This is the instructions the browser is reading to display the webpage.

This is a very important and useful tool as you can go back and forth between the source code and the page itself to get an idea of how everything works. If you like some feature on a website you can look at the source code to see how this was created. You can even cut and paste all or parts of the source code into your own HTML file and then tweak them to make them your own.

So now we know the basic structure of a HTML document and what we need to create a webpage. Lets start looking at the basic tags available to you when you are creating your webpages.