The instructions you give using plain text are interpreted by the browser to present the contents in a stylized manner. So it means HTML files are essentially Plain text files with extension HTM or HTML
The HTML commands are called TAGS.
The format of the tags is
<tag name></tag name>
Everything goes between opening and closing tags
For example <bold> my name </bold> results in my name
Let us do it in a logical sequence
Every HTML document has the two mandatory tags
<html>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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The <html> tag tells the browser that what is to follow is an HTML
document.
The <body> tag specifies the matter that is to be displayed in the
browser window
There are other tags between these two. which are
<title> specifies the title to be displayed in the title
bar of the browser window
<head> it specifies the header information which contain information
like key words, description of your sight etc.
Now we have a template of an HTML file
<html>
<head>
<title> <title>
</head>
</html>
Other useful HTML tags
<B>bold</B>
<center>center</center>
<I>italics</I>
<STRONG>strong</STRONG>
<BLINK>blink</BLINK>
<CITE>citation</CITE>
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