HTML

HyperText Markup Language. This is the code that World Wide Web documents are written in. A Web browser interprets this code to decide where and how to display images and links in a Web document and how to lay out the text. Web browsers are not standard, however, and some support certain HTML tags in different ways, or don't support them at all.

If you view the source of a Web document (this should be an option for your browser) you can see what an HTML document looks like. All HTML code is enclosed in the "<" and the ">" characters. For example, the HTML code to make this link to the Netscape home page looks like:

<a href="http://home.netscape.com">Netscape home page</a>

There are several online guides to help you learn basic and advanced HTML. Some of them are listed in the ShopSite Guide to HTML.

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