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For a basic explanation of what a standard HTML document looks like and the rules that apply to it, you are in the right place.
- <html> - start a new HTML document
- <head> - special attributes, not displayed or needed in the beginning.
- <title> - title of your page. This will appear in the name of the Web Browsers window.
- <body> - start displaying from here onwards. You put in text, images, and links after this tag.
Below an example is shown, the larger window is your web browser and the smaller window in the foreground is your text editor, or HTML Editor.
Notice the ".html" extension on the file name, all HTML files are named either .html or .htm (usually found on the PC plateform.)
The first thing you do when creating an HTML document is to
tell the Web Browser that this is an HTML document, with the tag
<html>. This should be followed by a
corresponding </html> at the very end of
the document.
You should then add a
<head> tag, to tell the browser that what
follows is not part of the actual document, but "header" information.
Normally, all you will need in this section is the title of the document, enclosed between
<title> and
</title>. Using more than one title
is neither clever nor useful. The title will normally be displayed in the
window's title bar, or in a similar place - this document's title is
"NetaGuru.com: The Basics".
Once you've done that, you should end the header with a
</head> tag, followed immediately by
a <body> tag. This
signals the end of any special stuff: you're now ready to add the actual
text.
The <body> tag is also used to define
background images, and link text color for the entire document.
For more
information on these, refer to the following links:
- Background
Images
- Links
- Colors (How to apply them)
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