HTML- BASIC STRUCTURE OF A PAGE

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INTRODUCTION

All HTML pages have three main TAGS which are present in all the pages. These are-

1.- The Basic TAG which tells that the content is HTML type.

2.-Many important information about the page are held within this tag.

3.-The main tag which contains the content. The in-depth details are given below.

<HTML></HTML> TAG

<HTML> TAG is the main tag of the HTML file.It tells the browser that the content embedded between <HTML> AND </HTML> tag is html.Every other tag is contained in HTML tag. This is the FATHER of all tags.

HELLO WORLD HTML CODING

The sample code shows the FIRST AND LAST TAG AS <HTML>.

Either the page is simple or complex this is the first and last tag of any HTML page.

All other web supporting tags of JAVASCRIPT , PHP etc. are embedded in HTML only.

<HEAD> TAG

<HEAD> tag is also one of the most important and compulsory tags of HTML.

<HEAD> tag contains the important and vital information about the page. For Example

the TITLE INFORMATION , META INFORMATION and SCRIPT INFORMATION of the page are contained in this head tag.

<TITLE> TAG

<TITLE> tag defines the TITLE of the page. The text which is written on the title bar of browser or Tab of the browser. 

USAGE: Simply put the title tag inside the HEAD tag. Write TITLE inside the title tags. The example is shown.

TITLE TAG CODE

The output is shown in the picture below.

TITLE TAG OUTPUT

<BODY> TAG

BODY tag contains the content which is visible on the page.

BODY tag can be given a number of tags for formatting the text e.g. font-related tags, size, color, head, lists, tables, etc.

These tags are discussed in further articles.

BODY TAG EXAMPLE CODING

The output of the given code will be as shown in the following picture.

BODY TAG EXAMPLE OUTPUT