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Mar 19, 2008, 01:31 PM
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What is "HTML" as opposed to "plain text"?
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Mar 19, 2008, 01:40 PM
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Hope this helps
Plain text has no formatting. Plain text typically is represented as looking very plain. It's often displayed using what's called a "mono-spaced" font - meaning that each character takes up the same space on the line HTML started as the way to describe how web pages should look. It includes ways to specify formatting, colors, positioning, and some amount of layout. As email became more popular, people started wanting to make their messages "look" as nice as they felt web pages looked. They wanted that formatting, the ability to put in pictures, and the like. The html part is where you add the spinning hearts and stuff.... Does this help? Hope so Colleen PS. not a stupid question
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Mar 19, 2008, 01:51 PM
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I think I get it
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Mar 19, 2008, 02:23 PM
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An html document is, in fact, written in plain text. It is just a code that tells a Web browser how to represent a page. You can take a look at the code using the View Page Source function of your browser. For most pages these days it will look horribly complex. Here is an example of a simple Web page as seen in a text editor, where I have replaced the <> in the code with a [] so it will actually show as text here:
[!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"] HTML Code:
[HEAD] [TITLE]Title of the web page [/TITLE] [/HEAD] [BODY] An example of a simple [B]Web[/B] page. [/BODY] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Title of the web page </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> An example of a simple Web page. </BODY> </HTML>
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