HyperText source

The frodriguez.net source repository is not publicly accessible. This document provides the basic HTML needed to begin a small page on the World Wide Web.

Everything required for the document is written below. No framework, account, installation procedure, or large corporation is necessary.

A complete document: The smallest useful page, including a title, heading, paragraph, and link.
Elements: A few of the tags used to give a document structure.
Publishing: Save the text as an HTML file and place it on a Web server.
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The World Wide Web project: The original CERN document that inspired the presentation of this page.

A complete document

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<HTML lang="en">
<HEAD>
  <TITLE>My page on the Web</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
  <H1>My page on the Web</H1>

  <P>This is a document. It contains an idea.</P>

  <P>Here is <A href="https://example.org/">a link</A>
  to another document.</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Copy the example into an ordinary text editor and save it as index.html. Opening that file in a browser will display the page.

Elements

<TITLE>: The name shown by the browser for the document.
<H1>: The principal heading.
<P>: A paragraph of text.
<A href="...">: A hypertext link to another document.
<IMG src="..." alt="...">: An image, perhaps an animated GIF of questionable necessity.

Publishing

A Web page is a text file available at an address. Change it, save it, publish it, and see what survives.

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