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HTML Primer

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Required Elements
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Required Elements

Below is a sample page for you to look at as an example while learning the meaning and importance of the tags <HTML>, <HEAD>, <TITLE>, and <BODY>. To make it easier all tags are marked in red. HTML tags are not visible to people when they view your homepage. Tags are only used to tell the browsers what to show people.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>John's Homepage </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Hi, my name is John and this is my homepage.
</BODY>
</HTML>

    Explainations
  • <HTML> tells the browser that the document contains HTML elements.
  • <HEAD> is the first part of the two parts that make an HTML document, and is only used to house other tags, one of which is <TITLE>.
  • <TITLE> designated the title of your page. The title with show in the upper left of your browser. The title for the sample page is John's Homepage. For example, the title for this page is "Y!Geocities Welcoming Team HTML Primer:Required Elements page".
Note: All tags that start with a / stop an action. For example </HTML> stops <HTML>

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Last Updated on August 05, 1999 by the ComputerThug
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