Introduction to HTML/XHTML

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to HTML/XHTML
2. Structure of an HTML Document
3. Getting Started with HTML
   1. Headings
   2. Paragraphs
   3. Character Formatting
   4. Lists
   5. Tables
   6. Special Characters
   7. Adding Comments
4. Hypertext Links
5. Including Pictures
6. A bit more on XHTML
7. Updating Existing HTML Documents to XHTML
8. Cascading Style Sheets
9. Style Properties for Text
10. Utilities
11. Books and Further Reading
12. The End

Adding Comments

If you are involved in writing a Web page of a reasonable size then it might be useful to annotate the X/HTML code so that you are reminded as to what section of the code does what. Text inserted as a "comment" is not displayed on the viewing screen and is only visible when the source code of the Web page is viewed.

To add a comment to the X/HTML code we use the following X/HTML tags:

<!--

Should appear at the beginning of any comment

-->

Should appear after the comment.

For example:

...
<!-- The following shows the use of the header tag -->
<h3>Example Header</h3>
<!-- The following shows the use of the paragraph  tag -->
<p>This is a small paragraph.</p>
...