HTML

Another preliminary to programming applets is some knowledge of HTML, or hypertext markup language. This is the language used to create basic web pages. A full treatment of HTML is not the focus of this book, but I'll describe enough here so that you can write web pages that can host applets.

The HTML language is composed of tags, which are always enclosed in angled brackets. These tags typically mark simple logical formatting, e.g. headings, general type faces, paragraphs and the like. For example, if we wanted to put the previous two paragraphs on a web page, the raw HTML would look like this.