Getting started with HTML

What tags are, and the skeleton every page needs.

HTML describes what each part of a page is: this is a heading, this is a link, this is a list. A browser reads that and displays it. You only need a text editor and a browser to begin.

Save this as index.html and double-click the file.

HTML

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>My first page</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Hello, Erode!</h1>
  <p>This is my first web page.</p>
</body>
</html>

The head holds information about the page. The title appears on the browser tab and in Google results.
The body holds what visitors see.
Most tags come in pairs, such as <p> and </p>. A few, such as <img>, stand alone.

Headings and text →