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Basic HTML

Basic HTML

Basic Page Structure:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Sample HTML Program

<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

HTML Headings

HTML headings are with the

to

tags.

Example:

<h1>  Heading 1 </h1>
<h2>  Heading 2 </h2>
<h3>  Heading 3 </h3>
<h4>  Heading 4 </h4>
<h5>  Heading 5 </h5>
<h6>  Heading 6 </h6>

Explanation

The <!DOCTYPE html> is to tell the browser you want the page to be rendered using HTML5.

The <head></head> is were you want to put things that help the browser and search engines such as <title></title> and <meta>.

The <body></body> is were the tags that will display on the page are such as <h1></h1> or <p></p>.

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