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Table Of Contents  The TCP/IP Guide
 9  TCP/IP Application Layer Protocols, Services and Applications (OSI Layers 5, 6 and 7)
      9  TCP/IP Key Applications and Application Protocols
           9  TCP/IP File and Message Transfer Applications and Protocols (FTP, TFTP, Electronic Mail, USENET, HTTP/WWW, Gopher)
                9  TCP/IP World Wide Web (WWW, "The Web") and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
                     9  TCP/IP World Wide Web and Hypertext Overview and Concepts

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World Wide Web Media and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
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Common Text Formatting Tags

There are also numerous tags that are used to format the appearance of text within a document; some of the more common ones:

  • <b>text</b>: Present the enclosed text in bold.

  • <i>text</i>: Present the enclosed text in italics.

  • <u>text</u>: Present the enclosed text underlined.

  • <font (parameters)>text</font>: Present the enclosed text using the indicated font type, size or color.

Again, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to HTML. If you are not familiar with HTML, however, knowing these basic tags should be enough to help you interpret basic HTML documents and learn how HTTP works.

Key Concept: The language used by World Wide Web hypertext documents is called the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML documents are as ASCII text files, but are arranged using a special structure of HTML elements that define the different parts of the document and how they should be displayed to the user. Each element is described using special text tags that define it and its characteristics.



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