Step 1
-
The browser understands Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML.
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Create an empty file and call it
index.html
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Open the file in your favorite text editor!
The extension of your file must be
html
. The name,index
, is just a convention for naming the landing page of websites.
- HTML document is essentially a text file organized into sections. Each section is contained within
<tagname>...</tagname>
and is called an HTML element. Here is the minimal structure:
<html>
<head>
<!-- meta data about the page -->
</head>
<body>
<!-- content of the page -->
</body>
</html>
- Note that HTML elements can be nested.
HTML is fairly easy and you will pick it up as we progress through the course. Please see the Appendix for more information.
- Copy the following to your
index.html
<html>
<head>
<title>SleepTime App</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello world!</p>
</body>
</html>
- Open
index.html
in your favorite browser.