HTML Tutorial/Creating Your First HTML Page

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The HTML File

HTML files are text files, so you can use any text editor to create your first webpage.
There are some very nice HTML editors available; you can choose the one that works for you.

Add the basic HTML structure to the text editor with "This is a line of text" in the body section.

<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <body>
      This is a line of text.
   </body>
</html>

Don’t forget to save the file. HTML file names should end in either .html or .htm.

The <title> Tag

To place a title on the tab describing the web page, add a <title>1 element to your head section:

<html>
   <head>
      <title>first page</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      This is a line of text.
   </body>
</html>

The title element is important because it describes the page and is used by search engines.

1. <title>
Defines a title for the document.

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