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Web documents consist of the content you see on your browser screen and HTML tags used to format and give structure to that content. Tags are special keywords enclosed in < and > symbols. The keywords can be in either upper or lowercase. Below is a skeleton for an HTML document.
<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html>
Most markup tags come in pairs. The first tag marks the point in the document where a format or structure begins and the second marks the end. The same keyword is used in both tags, but the second tag has a slash character "/" that identifies it as an ending tag.
An HTML file is divided into two sections. The head section, which contains information about the page, is enclosed by the <head> and </head> tags. It is followed by the body section, which holds the page content displayed by the browser is enclosed by <body> and </body> tags. Both sections are enclosed by <html> and </html> tags.
The text placed between the <title> and </title> tags will be displayed in the browser window's title bar. For example, the title for the page you are now browsing was coded as:
The content of the web document, including text and tags for displaying images, is placed between the <body> and </body> tags.
To try your hand at some basics, you can use the HTML Maker. (This will open a new browser window that you can use throughout the tutorial.)