Introduction

In this chapter, various component of HTML are discussed to design a web page.
The basic structure for an HTML page is shown below.

Entries inside the < . . . > are known as tags. Most of the tags has an opening and closing e.g. <head> (opening head) and </head> (closing head). Some of the tags do not have closing tags e.g. <!DOCTYPE . . .> and <br>. We need to write the HTML codes inside the tags.
The comments are written between ‘<!–’ and ‘–>’.
Here Line 1 gives the details of the ‘HTML version’ to the web-browser. The ‘html’ tells it is version 5.
The ‘head’ tag (Lines 3-5) contains the header related tags e.g. ‘title for the page’ and ‘links for the css files’ etc.
The ‘body’ tag (7-11) contains the actual HTML code which is displayed on the web-browser. Also, we add all the JavaScript related codes just before the closing body tag (</body>).


					1 <!DOCTYPE html> <!-- tells browser above the html version --> 

			2 <html><!-- beginning of the html document --> 

			3 <head> 

			4 <!-- header related tags e.g. title, links etc. --> 

			5 </head> 

			6 

			7 <body> 

			8 <!-- actual html document here --> 

			9 

			10 <!-- add JavaScript files here --> 

			11 </body> 

			12 </html>