Essential HTML Tags
There are four sets of HTML tags that form the basic structure needed for every HTML file:
- <html></html>
- <head></head>
- <title></title>
- <body></body>
- Definition -
<html> </html> - This basically defines the document as web page. It also identifies the beginning and end of the HTML document. All other tags must fall between the
htmltags. - Header -
<head> </head> - The header contains information about the document that will not appear on the actual page, such as the title of the document, the author, which stylesheet to use and also meta tags.
- Title -
<title> </title> - The
titletag defines the title that will appear in the title bar of your web browser. Thetitlemust appear between theheadtags. - Body -
<body> </body> - The
bodytags contain all the information and other visible content on the page. All your images, links and plain text must go between the<body>and</body>tags.
Example:
Below is a basic html document. Notice that everything falls between the html tags, the title appears within the head of the document, and that the body comes after the head.
<html>
<head>
<title>this is the title</title>
</head>
<body>
this is everything that goes in the document!
</body>
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