html · level 1 · unit 1 · lesson 1
- meet it
- guess first
- your turn
- fix it
- nailed it
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meet it
A is text with labels for the .
A web page is text, like a letter or a menu. A browser is the app that opens web pages and shows them on your screen. You are using one right now.
The browser needs to know what each part of the text is. Is this line a title? Is that one a note? is how you tell it.
HTML is a language of labels. You wrap a label round each part, and the browser follows your labels exactly. Writing them is called writing .
<h1>Hello!</h1>Press show my page to see it here.
Press run and the browser turns this line into a big heading. The next lesson shows how.
guess first
Labels or words? What will you see?
Guess before you run it. Wrong guesses are how you learn, and nothing is marked.
<h1>Fish and chips</h1>your turn
Your turn. Tell the world your favourite animal.
Type your favourite animal in place of the blank, between the labels. Then press run.
Press show my page to see it here.
- the heading names your favourite animalnot checked yet
fix it
Gran's card has a typo. Can you fix it?
Press show my page to see it here.
- the heading spells birthday correctlynot checked yet
- Read the heading on the screen out loud, slowly. Does every word look right?
- The browser shows exactly what you wrote. It never fixes your spelling for you.
- Two letters in brithday are swapped. Change it to birthday, then press run.
nailed it
you made your first web page. :D
- A web page is text with labels.
- HTML labels tell the browser what each part is.
- The browser shows exactly what you wrote.
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- web page
- browser
- HTML
- code
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