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HTML and XHTML Step by Step
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HTML and XHTML Step by Step

by Faithe Wempen
February 2006
Beginner
416 pages
11h 35m
English
Microsoft Press
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Creating the HTML, Head, and Body Sections

All your HTML coding—except the DOCTYPE—should be placed within the two-sided tag <html>. Recall from Chapter 1, that when a tag is two-sided, it requires a corresponding closing tag that is identical to the opening tag but contains a slash: </html>. The tags <html> and </html> serve as a "wrapper" around all the other tags in the document.

In addition, your document should have two sections: a Head and a Body. The Head section is defined by the two-sided tag <head>. The Head section contains the page title, which is the text that will appear in the title bar of the Web browser and on the Microsoft Windows taskbar button. It also includes information about the document that is not displayed, such as its ...

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