Hello World of HTML
Basic HTML document structure
<!DOCTYPE html>: HTML5 document type declaration<html>...</html>: Mark the beginning and the end of the page<head>...</head>: Contains all of the non-visual elements that help make the page work<body>...</body>: All visual-structural elements are contained within the body tag
These are usually found in head tag:
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>: UTF-8 Unicode Character encodings in HTML for this page<title>...</title>: Defines the browser page title
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>--TITLE--</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello!
</body>
</html>
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Result
Exercise
- Write a simple HTML5 page with the very basic structure.
- Try to change the page title and page content.