Basic Outline

This is the basic outline of an HTML document.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Each line of code above is termed a tag. These tags enable your browser to *read* your document when it is stored on the WWW.
Most but not all tags occur in pairs.

This basic outline can be broken down into two sections:

1. The header.

2. The body.

The header

<HEAD>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
</HEAD>

When you type a title for your page between the title tags, it may show on the title bar of the browser you are using. It can also be used during a search of pages on the WWW.

The body

<BODY>
</BODY>

The rest of your document will be between these two body tags. That includes all the text, graphics and links.

<HTML> & </HTML>

These two tags identify the document as an HTML document.

Summary

•Tags are the lines of code that enable the browser to read the HTML document.
•A HTML document is broken into two parts-the header and the body.
•The tags <HTML> & </HTML> identify the document as an HTML document.

Lets go to the first drill.