HTML

HTML, or HyperText Mark-up Language, is designed to specify the logical organisation of a document, with important hypertext extensions. It is not designed to be the language of a word processor such as Word or Wordperfect. This choice was made because the same html document may be viewed by many different "browsers", of very different abilities. Thus, for example, html allows you to mark selections of text as titles or paragraphs, and then leaves the interpretation of these marked elements up to the browser. For example one browser may indent the beginning of a paragraph, while another may only leave a blank line.

Html instructions divide the text of a document into blocks called elements, these can be divided into two broad categories. Those that define how the body of the document is to be displayed by the browser, and those that define information `about' the document, such as the title or relationships to other documents. The last part of the section also describes standard naming schemes for html documents and related files.

A good HTML reference guide can be found on the Netscape site.