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Part I Laying the Foundation

A simple setup for a Web page would be as follows:

<HTML>

<HEAd>

<title> A simple web page</title>

</head>

<body>

This is paragraph one.

This is paragraph two.

and this is paragraph three.

<ul>

</ul>

<hr>

<address>street, city, state</address>

</body>

</html>

Note that HTML is not case-sensitive and does not care what is uppercase and/or lowercase in

these elements. To the thousands of users challenged by pressing the Shift key correctly every

time, count your blessings. However, the content in between the tags won’t be automatically

corrected, so make sure that you capitalize words where necessary in the content you want to

display to the user of your Web page. In more advanced coding that deals with attributes, you

will learn that case does occasionally matter.

You will also note that every element in this example appears in a straight line against the left

margin. This formatting may provide for easier reading, but it is not necessary to produce effective

HTML code. Because HTML is totally insensitive to whitespaces, you could also enter the previous

example as follows:

<HTML><HEAd><title>A simple web page</title></head><body>

This is paragraph one.This is paragraph two

and this is paragraph three.

<hr>

<address>street, city, state</address></body>

</html>

Many Web browsers will ﬁx small HTML errors automatically, since there are so many

different ways of interpreting HTML and all its different versions. This is sometimes

known as ‘‘promiscuous’’ or ‘‘dirty rendering’’ mode.

You can see how annoying this would be trying to read, however, especially if you were trying

to ﬁnd where you made a typo. So, by convention, HTML is printed nicely, line by line, one

command per line, and sometimes indented to distinguish related sections (such as when using

nesting in

if-else command structures).