creating your 1 st web page. tags refers to anything between on a webpage most appear in pairs...
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The Most Basic HTML Page
Creating Your 1st Web Page
TagsRefers 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 TagPair 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 TagPair of tags (will close later)
Contains info about the page
Tags in this section do NOT display on the page itself
meta TagEmpty tag (no closing)
Info about the page
charset attribute specifies the encoding of text used in coding the page
title TagPair of tags
Surround title of the page
Appears in top of browser
Used as title for bookmarks
Used in search engine results
Close the head section
End of head section
Notice closing tags start with /
This guy’s really into
web design!
body TagPair of tags (will
close later)
Contains content that WILL display on the webpage
p TagPair of tags
Surround paragraph content that displays on page
Close the body section
End of body section
Close of html End of the
page