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Understanding What HTML Is

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While HTML might seem difficult, it's quite easy once you try to learn it. Yes, learning the tags is an easy thing to do, but actually building a site by combining a number of different tags can be harder to do.

In a lot of cases, the first thing you're going to see in a html file isn't the tag, but a different tag, called a doctype. In order for the file to be a valid HTML, this doctype should be inserted in the beginning of the document. Here are the two types of doctype tags:

The first one:



And the second one, in XHTML:



Depending on the doctype found at the beginning of the page, the web browser knows in what type of HTML the page is written in and chances are better that it's interpreted correctly.

The HTTP Errors - the protocol that browsers use to communicate with a server is called HTTP and it gives them information on pages, like cookies and history. In certain situations, the server will return an error code, and you can see what each error code means below:

If the error you receive has the code 404, it means page not found. The 404 page should have links pointing to links on your own site.

The 200 error - everything is OK

Error 301 - the page has moved.

Error 403 - access forbidden (you don't have the authorization to access)

Error 500 - means internal server error

MIME Types- MIME types are another part of the HTML header. They tell the web browser what kind of file they are about to send. Browsers don't rely on HTML files ending in .html, JPEG images ending in .jpeg, and so on: they rely on the content-type header. Mentioned below are some common MIME types:


The MIME Types: his is another area that can be found in the header of a HTML file, which lets your browser know what file is going to be sent next. Browsers look at the content-type header when they want to know what type of file they're receiving. Below are the MIME types that the browser can get:

text/html – announces HTML files

text/plain - announces plain text files

text/css - announces CSS files

image/png - shows PNG images

image/gif - showsGIF images

image/jpeg - shows JPEG images

Inserting non-HTML things: getting CSS or Javascript code in a HTML file can be problematic for users if they don't know how to do it. It can be achieved with the help of script tags and links.





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