The Most Basic HTML Page Creating Your 1st Web Page The Most Basic HTML Page
Tags Refers to anything between <> on a webpage Most appear in pairs surrounding content Some appear as empty tags (no closing tag) – These are always structured < stuff/> Used to structure the page Keep lowercase!
Document Type Definition <!doctype html> Empty tag (no closing) Tells browser what type of document the webpage is html: HyperText Markup Language Specifically HTML5
html Tag Pair of tags (will close later) Surround everything else on page lang attribute specifies language of the page en = English Attribute values are surrounded by quotation marks
head Tag Pair of tags (will close later) Contains info about the page Tags in this section do NOT display on the page itself
meta Tag Empty tag (no closing) Info about the page charset attribute specifies the encoding of text used in the page
title Tag Pair of tags Surround title of the page Appears in top of browser Used as title for bookmarks Used in search engine results
This guy’s really into web design! Close the head section End of head section Notice closing tags start with / This guy’s really into web design!
body Tag Pair of tags (will close later) Contains content that WILL display on the webpage
p Tag Pair of tags Surround paragraph content that displays on page
Close the body section End of body section
Close of html End of the page