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- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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- A Beginner's Guide to HTML
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- This is a primer for producing documents in HTML, the markup language used by the World Wide Web.
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- Acronym Expansion
- What This Primer Doesn't Cover
- Creating HTML Documents
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- The Minimal HTML Document
- Basic Markup Tags
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- Titles
- Headings
- Paragraphs
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- Linking to Other Documents
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- Relative Links Versus Absolute Pathnames
- Uniform Resource Locator
- Anchors to Specific Sections in Other Documents
- Anchors to Specific Sections Within the Current Document
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- Additional Markup Tags
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- Lists
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- Unnumbered Lists
- Numbered Lists
- Definition Lists
- Nested Lists
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- Preformatted Text
- Extended Quotes
- Addresses
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- Character Formatting
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- Physical Versus Logical:
- Use Logical Tags When Possible
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- Logical Styles
- Physical Styles
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- Using Character Tags
- Special Characters
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- Escape Sequences
- Forced Line Breaks
- Horizontal Rules
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- In-line Images
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- Alternate Text for Viewers
- That Can't Display Images
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- External Images, Sounds, and Animations
- Troubleshooting
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- Avoid Overlapping Tags
- Embed Anchors and Character Tags,
- But Not Anything Else
- Check Your Links
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- A Longer Example
- For More Information
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- Fill-out Forms
- Style Guides
- Other Introductory Documents
- Additional References
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- National Center for Supercomputing Applications / pubs@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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- Return to HTML.edit Help Contents.
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- The original of this document is available as
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- http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
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