Basic Tags
Page Structure: <html>, <head> & <body>
HTML Page Structure
Try It: Add Code
In your brand new file, add the code above. Look at your file in a browser. It should be blank.
An HTML file has two parts, the head and the
body.
The head or header has information about the
HTML file and the body contains the actual content you want to display in the
browser.
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Try It: Add Code
In your brand new file, add the code above. Look at your file in a browser. It should be blank.
Every HTML page should begin with the <html> tag. It
tells the browser that the HTML is starting.
Likewise, the matching end tag, </html> tells the browser
the HTML is ending. Some browsers will not display any text that appears before
the <html> tag or after the </html> tag.
<head> tag
and the <body> tag. The <head> and
<body> tags always
go inside the <html> tag. Notice how the <head>
tag ends before the <body> tag begins. As you can see in the
diagram, all three of these tags are container
tags: they have a start tag and an end tag.
The <title> Tag
Try It: Add Title
Try adding the
The Try adding the
<title> tag to your file.
Reload your page to see your title appear.
...
<head>
<title>My Title</title>
</head>
...
<title> tag is an example of a tag that goes
in the <head> and only there, never in the
<body>. This is
because it describes something about the page (the title) rather than
appearing in the page itself.
Like the
other tags you've learned so far, <title> is
a container tag. The text you put between the start tag and the end
tag is what the browser uses as the title of the window displaying
the page.