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WebsterHome :: Categories :: Page Index :: RecentChanges :: Search :: Help :: Login/RegisterBasic HTML Page Structure
A basic HTML page requires several components:
- Declaration of a document type so the user's browser knows which interpreter to use when displaying the page.
- A pair of html tags to contain the page:
<html> page </html>
- Inside the html tag container are two 'containers' identified by two pairs of tags. These containers hold the header information and the body of the page.
- A pair of head tags contain 'header' information, things like scripts and styles and meta-tags for search engines:
<head> header information </head>
- A pair to body tags contain the body, or actual code for the page content:
<body> html code to generate a page </body>
- Note: white space is (generally) ignored.
This is what it might look like:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Sample Page Title</title>
<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 8.7" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>