#Structure of an HTML Document
Here is a basic example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>declares that this is an HTML5 document<html> ... </html>is the root element that contains the entire content of the document<head> ... </head>is the document head, used for setting the page title, styles, scripts, etc.<body> ... </body>is the document body, which is the visible part of the page
Note that
<meta charset="utf-8"/>sets the character encoding and should match the encoding used by your editor when saving the file. Most modern editors default toUTF-8.
Create a new text file, copy the above code into it and save it. Then rename the file extension to .html and open the file in a browser.
It will look like this:
Page Title
This is a Heading
This is a paragraph