Structure of an HTML Document
An HTML document has two main parts: the head and the body. But firstly every HTML document should start by declaring that it is an HTML document.
These tags are of the form:
Should appear at the beginning of your document.
Should appear at the end of your document.
HTML Tags
This leads us nicely on to say more about [X]HTML tags. All formatting tags (or elements) are of the general form:
Switches the tag sequence on. For example, to bold some text add a at the beginning of the text.
</tag_***>
Switches the tag sequence . The tagon and tag tags are the same except the tag has an / character in front of it. For example, to switch the bolding add a character sequence at the end of the text that is to be given the attribute of bolding.
Note: HTML is a case insensitive mark-up language, i.e. as far as all browsers are concerned the tags and are indistinguishable. However XHTML uses only lowercase tags which will be used throughout this course.
