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June 8, 2023
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a modern standard markup language that uses common abbreviations called “tags” to indicate to the web browser how the author would like to have sections of a web page laid out.
HTML web pages are merely plain text files that have been saved with a “.htm” or “.html” file extension, such as index.html.
The skeletal structure of an HTML document has three parts:
The document type declaration must appear at the start of the first line of every HTML document to ensure the web browser will “render” (display) the document in “Standards Mode” – following the HTML specifications. The document type declaration tag for all HTML documents looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
The document’s head section begins with an HTML opening <head> tag and ends with a corresponding closing </head> tag. Data describing the document can be added later between these two tags to complete the HTML document’s head section.
The document’s body section begins with an HTML opening <body> tag and ends with a corresponding closing </body> tag. Data content to appear in the browser can be added later between these two tags to complete the HTML document’s body section.
Comments can be added at any point within both the head and body sections between a pair of <!– and –> tags. Anything that appears between the comment tags is ignored by the browser.
So, the markup tags that create the fundamental structure of every HTML document look like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<!– Data describing the document to be added here. –>
</head>
<body>
<!– Content to appear in the browser to be added here. –>
</body>
</html>
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