Basic HTML tags and their meaning
Learning the basic HTML tags and their meaning
This lesson follows on from learning HTML for a basic website
Basic HTML tags
| Tag | Description | 
| <!DOCTYPE...> | This tag tells us what the document type is and what HTML version. | 
| <html> | The HTML tag encloses all the HTML document and consists of the document header tags <head>...</head> and body tags <body>...</body>. | 
| <head> | This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML tags like <title>, <link> etc. | 
| <title> | The is called the title tag and is used inside the <head> tag. The title tag is the name of the document (webpage). | 
| <body> | This is called the body tag and contains all the other HTML tags <h1>, <p> <br /> etc. | 
| <h1> | This is a heading tag. | 
| <p> | This is a paragraph tag. | 
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