Getting Started
Essential Tags
There are a few things that all html documents should have in them.
You should start every document with <html>, this tells the browser
that this is an html document. At the end of the document you would then
close the element with </html>. While most browsers don't need
this, it's better to be safe and put it in. Also, some of the people
developing future html tags have discussed the possibility of putting
other information outside of the <html> </html> element. If
this was to happen then you would have to go through all of the documents
you created and then add the <html> </html>, which could be a
very time consuming task, it's much easier just to be safe and include
them in the first place.
The next element you should include is <head> </head>. This
element contains header information. This is information which is not
displayed in the main body of the text. The most common piece of
information is the title of the document.
Inside the <head> </head> element is where you put the title
element. This is the title of your document, which will appear in the
upper right hand corner of the screen in lynx. In graphical browsers the
title is usually displayed in the title bar of the window. You create a
title by entering the title you want within the <title>
</title> element.
The last element you should include is the <body> </body>.
This element is the main body of your text. All of the information that
you want to appear on the screen should be included in this element.
So every web document should look something like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document goes here</title>
</head>
<body>
Content for the page goes here
</body>
</html>
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