Author: M Moyne


HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the computer
language that most of the Internet is written in.

HTML is made up of tags and sets of tags, a set being two tags
that are linked: a start tag and an end tag. HTML is a bit like
a person, the head comes first, then the body.

As I've just mentioned the very first main tag of every single
HTML document is usually the HTML tag, which is a start tag and
is written as . Accompanying it will be the very last tag
of the document, the end tag, . Notice the / this means
it is an end tag. Every start tag must have an end tag. Start
tags begin a section of code and end tags finish it. I say the
very first "main" tag as there can be a tag before it, the
DOCTYPE tag. This tag gives the browser information about what
type of HTML is being used.

The head section begins with the tag and ends with the
tag. It has information about the page itself and
consists of the page title, the meta tags (more on those in a
minute), and the code for any page transitions you may have.

The page title is self-explanatory and is written as
Your page title

The meta tags, particularly the