Although the basics of HTML are plain text, we need a bit more to make it a valid HTML document.
Tags
The basic structure of an HTML document includes tags, which surround content and apply meaning to it.
Change your document so that it looks like this:
<html>
<body>
This is my first web page
body>
html>
Now save the document again, go back to the web browser and select "refresh" (which will reload the page).
The appearance of the page will not have changed at all, but the purpose of HTML is to apply meaning, not presentation, and this example has now defined some fundamental elements of a web page.
The first line on the top that starts
To get back to the point,
Closing tags
The
Not all tags have closing tags like this (
Attributes
Tags can also have attributes, which are extra bits of information. Attributes appear inside the opening tag and their value is always inside quotation marks. They look something like Margarine. We will come across tags with attributes later.
Elements
Tags tend not to do much more than mark the beginning and end of an element. Elements are the bits that make up web pages. You would say, for example, that everything that is in-between and includes the </code>' and '<code>' are tags, 'Rumple Stiltskin' is a title element.
Original source: HTML Dog
