HTML Tutorial - Basics

To create a webpage, there are 3 tags required to start.
Each tag has an opening and closing tag.
The table below displays the order the tags go.

Name Tag
Opening HTML tag <html>
Opening HEAD tag <head>
Closing HEAD tag </head>
Opening BODY tag <body>
Closing BODY tag </body>
Closing HTML tag </html>

The <html> and </html> Tags
These two tags simply open and close the entire webpage, they are the first and last things on the page.

The <head> and </head> Tags
Inside these two tags is put information about the webpage that has been created,
this information is invisible on the page but tells Search Engines about your page.

The <body> and </body> Tags
Inside the 'body' tags is put everything that will be visible on the webpage, text, images, links etc.
View the tags page for HTML tags for inside the 'body' section of your webpage.

How it looks in your HTML editor.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Where to put the parts of your web page.

<html>
<head>
    Title and Meta Tags go inside the head section.
</head>
<body>
    General Tags go inside the body section.
    Links go inside the body section.
    Images go inside the body section.
    Tables go inside the body section.
</body>
</html>


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