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Viewing HTML Source


The first step to playing with HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is to find the HTML. This is easily done. HTML is a text file that hides behind a browser. It's the smarts that lets you see all the colors, graphics, sizes and styles of the World Wide Web. So, we need to "look under the hood" and get to the guts of HTML.

Start by looking at your Web page through the graphical browser (like Netscape), then:

Go to the menubar and do something like "View - Source or Document Source."

view- source

This will get you into the HTML:

example of a page of HTML

What you'll do throughout your editing of a Web page is flip back and forth between the HTML window and the browser window so you might want to overlap the windows a wee bit. This way it's easy to flip from one to the other by clicking on the window you want to make active.

flipping between HTML and the Browser

 

Working with HTML
Multiple Browsers * Viewing HTML Source *
Saving and Viewing Changes * Adding Links * HTML Resources *
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