ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the internal representation used in web pages. It details the language used to create a web page, and explains how a multimedia document can be created that contains items such as text and graphic images, and how a link can be created that points to another web page. The display hardware used with computers varies widely, with the size and resolution of a display depending on cost. Although the computer language used for web pages is a high-level language, it is not a natural language such as English. Instead, each web page is written in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Like other computer languages, HTML has rules of grammar, and uses conventional punctuation symbols in unusual ways. In addition to alignment, HTML includes a size specification that causes a browser to stretch or shrink an image to fit a specified size. Size specifications are especially useful when an image is much larger than a typical screen size.
