HyperText The files used for web documents are formatted using the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). There are some variations in the specifications of this format which are dependent on the browser. New or non-standard features will be indicated whenever they are described below. You can view any HTML document's "source code" by using the browser's View Source feature. You will notice that the source has formatting commands embedded within them, much like the Reveal Codes feature in programs such as WordPerfect. These "special codes" used within HTML are called tags, and are used in HTML to indicate formatting in a document. Tags begin with the less-than (<) symbol, and are closed with the greater-than (>) symbol, and are case-insensitive. Markup Tags There are two kinds of tags, some which are sometimes called "containers", and others which are not. A container tag brackets text (and sometimes other tags) with a start tag and a corresponding end tag. For example, to make a boldface word, you can use the <B> tag, as follows: This is <B>bold</B> text The <B> begins the bold attribute, while the </B> ends it. The following pages describes the tags used within HTML documents. Special Characters Because less-than and greater-than are used to denote tags, they cannot be include by themselves in an HTML document. These and other characters, including less-than, greater-than, and ampersand have special purposes and need to be entered in a special way. In addition, certain