Anatomy of an HTML Document
HTML is a Markup Language derived from another one called XML. XML has some standards required to be followed, and since HTML is a subset of it, there are also some standard practices for writing an HTML document. Here is a template of an HTML document:
index.html
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<!DOCTYPE html>
at the start of the document, we had to specify which version of HTML the browser should adhere to for parsing this document and validating everything. -
<html lang = 'en-us'>
provides metadata on what language we will use in this document. -
<head>
encapsulates the content you want to be part of the HTML document, but most of it shouldn't be displayed to the user. -
<meta charset="utf-8">
any data not meant for that element that must be included on the page must be put in this element mostly as an attribute. -
<title>
sets the page title on the browser tab. -
<body>
contains all the content of the page, which is to be displayed on the web page.
1. What does the <title>
element do?
2. Select all the elements that can be included in the body:
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HTML is a Markup Language derived from another one called XML. XML has some standards required to be followed, and since HTML is a subset of it, there are also some standard practices for writing an HTML document. Here is a template of an HTML document:
index.html
-
<!DOCTYPE html>
at the start of the document, we had to specify which version of HTML the browser should adhere to for parsing this document and validating everything. -
<html lang = 'en-us'>
provides metadata on what language we will use in this document. -
<head>
encapsulates the content you want to be part of the HTML document, but most of it shouldn't be displayed to the user. -
<meta charset="utf-8">
any data not meant for that element that must be included on the page must be put in this element mostly as an attribute. -
<title>
sets the page title on the browser tab. -
<body>
contains all the content of the page, which is to be displayed on the web page.
1. What does the <title>
element do?
2. Select all the elements that can be included in the body:
Thanks for your feedback!