Basic HTML Document Code Structure

Begin writing your HTML tags by creating your document's basic layout. Copy and paste this code into your text or HTML editor.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Page Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

This area will contain everything that will be visible through a web browser, such as text and graphics. All of the information will be HTML coded.

For a complete list of HTML codes, tags and examples, see the HTML chart below.

</BODY>
</HTML>

<HTML> - Begins your HTML document.

<HEAD> - Contains information about the page such as the TITLE, META tags for proper Search Engine indexing, STYLE tags, which determine the page layout, and JavaScript coding for special effects.

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<TITLE> - The TITLE of your page. This will be visible in the title bar of the viewers’ browser.

</TITLE> - Closes the HTML <TITLE> tag.

</HEAD> - Closes the HTML <HEAD> tag.

<BODY> - This is where you will begin writing your document and placing your HTML codes.

</BODY> - Closes the HTML <BODY> tag.

</HTML> - Closes the <HTML> tag.