Pages on the World Wide Web are (normally) written in Hy-perText Markup Language (HTML). HTML looks like computer programming, but it Is really more like an old-fashioned word processor (remember WordStar?). This article is intended to give you an introduction to how HTML works; you can learn about it in more detail through the tutorial Web pages described in the BioBit: HTML Resources. Markup means the document contains formatting information in addition to the text. To see what the underlying HTMLfor a Web page looks like, choose View Document Source from your Web browser. Formatting commands are put in angled brackets. For example, the command turns on italics, while the command turns italics off. One side-effect of this rule is that angled brackets themselves are Interpreted as having to do with commands, so you need special codes to tell the browser to print a "greater than" or "less than" symbol.
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