- HTML version information: The Doctype declaration is used to identify the version of HTML used by the webpage. It must be specified at the beginning of every document in the following manner:
<!DOCTYPE html>
- The
<html>
element: The html element consists of starting and end tag. It contains all the information and content of the web page.
<html> </html>
-
The
<head>
element: The head element consists of the information about the HTML document, i.e. title of the page, character set, version of HTML, styles, scripts, and other meta information.
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Title</title>
</head>
- The
<body>
element: The body element consists of everything that you want to display on the Web Page.
<body></body>
Here’s the full basic structure of an HTML document:
<!-- Defines version of HTML -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- Defines language of HTML -->
<html lang="en">
<!-- Details about the web page -->
<head>
<!-- Defines the character encoding of HTML page -->
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<!-- Defines the compatibility of version with browser -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<!-- For making the website responsive -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<!-- Title of the web page -->
<title>HTML</title>
</head>
<!-- Everything you want to display on the web page goes into the body part -->
<body>
<!-- Main content for web page -->
</body>
</html>
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