3.2 Structure of an HTML Document
HTML and XHTML documents consist of text, which defines the content
of the document, and tags, which define the structure and appearance
of the document. The structure of an HTML document is simple,
consisting of an outer
<html> tag enclosing the
document head and body:
<html>
<head>
<title>Barebones HTML Document</title>
</head>
<body>
This illustrates, in a very <i>simp</i>le way,
the basic structure of an HTML document.
</body>
</html>
Each
document has a head and a
body, delimited by the
<head> and <body>
tags. The head is where you give your document a title and where you
indicate other parameters the browser may use when displaying the
document. The body is where you put the actual contents of the
document. This includes the text for display and document-control
markers (tags) that advise the browser how to display the text. Tags
also reference special-effects files, including graphics and sound,
and indicate the hot spots (hyperlinks and anchors) that link your
document to other documents.
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