HTML
HTML is a markup language on which the World Wide Web runs on. If you understood that, go outside.
Just The Facts
- Developed in 1991 by Tim Bernres-Lee
- Stands for Hellish Thunder Monster Lord
- No it doesn't
Cracked on HTML
HTML gets a bad rep for being on of those "nerdy computer" concepts that make simpletons shit confusion turds. But HTML is a quite simple language if you put ten minutes down to learn the damn thing. It provides the backbone for webpages while the CSS stylesheet language provides styles and presentation effects and Javascript provides interactivity in webpages. It can be best described like this:
HTML - The ugly smart kid. Under appreciated but is the backbone for the school's barely-passing federal requirements. Probably has really bad acne. GROSS!
CSS - The dumb hot girl. CSS makes things easy to the eye but there is no content or substance. CSS is known for being a notorious slut. She even slept with that dork Rodney. I mean come on!
Javascript - The Sims 2 expansion pack. It complements the original and enhances it with new features. Also, only complete socialliay inept nerds get really good at it.
OMG - Not a web language. Should never be used in any context, ever.
HTML was originally created for usage between scientists in the European labratory CERN to share documentation, but has since been adapted to cover more useful purposes (read: porn). HTML stands for "HyperText Markup Language" which stands for "You have no fucking clue".
The Cracked HTML Guide

HTML is a useful but somewhat difficult language to learn, but not any more! Welcome to the CRACKED HTML Guide! Using our trademark system of easy progression and helpful tips, you'll be on your way to making some shitty website nobody gives a damn about! Let's get started.
HTML is based around tags to turn code to data to implement in a website. Just ignore that first sentence. Start tags are defined by the < and > symbols while an end tag is defined by the </ and > tags. Here are some quick examples:

Dongflame? Where do we come up with this stuff?
You can also mix tags as well. You can create a bold list, or if you're feeling really fucking adventurous, make an italic title. Seriously, you can. Fucking aces, right? However, let's not get too ahead of ourselves. We need to start from the beginning.
Every HTML document begins with the html tag. It tells the browser it's reading an HTML document. Guess what it looks like.
<html>Insert Website to be Insulted</html>
Yeah. Really. Under the html tag comes the <head> tag and it is used for storing data about the website into it. You can link external documents, add keywords for Google search, hide some ASCII porn and add a file name in the <head> tag.
But just like a sexy female woman, the <body> is where the fun happens. Unlike a sexy female woman, you are performing what could be the exact opposite of sexy. You are writing code. Under the <body> tag is where the site content gets stored. After the <body> tag is implemented, you can begin creating titles, paragraphs and lists. Let's take a look at the most commonly used tags, excluding the example above, so you can use in your website.

Really, though. <table> is a fucking joke.
Now you have a good list of tags to use to follow this guide with. Excellent! Now its time to learn of proper tag placement. The usage of tags is symmetrical, which means they aren't closed in a linear fashion. Here is an example of correct tag placement and incorrect placement:

Last example courtesy of forum member Bakudai.
Ok, now take everything you learned today and make a functioning web page! Let's just find the file here... ah here we go! Let's take a look!
Uploading File:Cracked_reader_HTML_practice.html... one moment please.
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My HTML Page
by: Cracked Reader






I love how wasn't done (and I can agree, it takes a while, although not necessarily hard) but was explained inside of a table :P
ReplyFool! < img> tags are closed with "/>" only in XHTML!
ReplyDamn, this actually answered a lot of questions I had. Go figure.
ReplyI laughed really hard at the bit about Javascript, then I got really sad
ReplyIt is really bugging me that the href code wasn't closed, the text that appeared wasn't shown in the code... ARGHHH.
ReplyI read this and learned everything I already knew. Table's are BAD, how to use tags, all the different types of cool bean tags you can use on a web page, etc.
ReplyI spent like 5 years of my teenage life doing web design with HTML and CSS. But I don't know the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web.
ReplyI'm probably the only person out of all you naves who understood this shit. Why don't you troglodytes crawl back into your youtube videos and online porn. f*****g n00bs. No, but in all seriousness, what the f**k did this articles even say?
ReplyIt explained basic HTML.
It wasn't complex.
PS. I have difficulty distinguishing sarcasm in comments sometimes.
Man, I must have been wasted.
ReplyJust like at my birthday party. For shame, Bakudai. For shame.
"i want to have sex with monkey" who is this monkey? why is she only referred in codename?
ReplyMaybe it's a monkey named monkey.
I thought I didn't know very much HTML. Then I read this article. And I realized I'm a nerd. I already knew this. And how come you only have to get one C to be over 100 pts???
Replybecause the fact that you actively clicked the link to this topic means you are probably a nerd... But don't feel bad, nerds will inherit the Earth! :-)
I thought it was that nerds will internet the earth
Really lame you pretend to be a computer retard in your windows topic, and then begin talking about HTML.
ReplyYou don't need the "/" when you're doing img src, you just need the closing >
ReplyTHAT ISN'T W3C COMPLIANT
Good day, sir! I said, good day!
You do in XHTML, which this page's examples are compliant with. He probably just simplified the name in order to make it more understandable to the general public.
Funny, and I lost 2% of my dignity! Woot!!! :)
ReplyYou forgot to add some sites are a little different with their HTML. Some use brackets instead of.. those pointy things. And you forgot HTML for changing font color! Wtf how do you forget that shit?? *Flames writer because he's not as cool or tech-savvy as I am and I feel the need to let everyone know that I'm a total loser.*
ReplySorry, but if you want to be tech-savvy, you'd know that fonts and text colors are best handled by CSS, not HTML.
And Markup that uses square brackets such as BBCode (forums) or Wiki Markup (uh..Wikis) are interpreted by the server side page and converted to HTML/CSS
nice. basically the..basic.
Replyhehe,nice article
ReplyWhat do you mean, writing code is the opposite of sexy? Writing code is the definition of sexy (at least, that's what I keep telling all the girls who ask me what I go to college for...).
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