HTML structure
Every HTML follows a structure so that a browser is able to read the page. To summarize, it always starts with an <html>
tag. This tag will contain the <head>
tag and the <body>
tag. Let's create our first page so you can understand.
Creating our first page
To create our first page. Click on File
| New File
or Command + N (or Ctrl + N for Windows).
You now have an untitled file. Let's quickly save and name it by clicking File
| Save
or Command + S (or Ctrl + S for Windows) and name it index.html
.
Why name it index.html
? Because the index.html
page is the common name used for the default page shown on a website by default when a visitor requests the site. In other words, index.html
is basically the name used for the homepage of the website.
Now that we have our first HTML file, we have to put the essential tags in to make it work. The essential tags should be written as follows:
<html> <!--This is our HTML main tag-->
<head> <!--This is our...