Practical JSF in Java EE 8: Web Applications ​in Java for the Enterprise

Appendix A: HTML

The HypertText Markup Language is used to describe the contents of a web page. Like XML, HTML is a member of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

I assume at least a basic knowledge of XML. Thus, this book won’t go into detail about how to build an XML document. An HTML document has to consider similar rules, but sometimes is less strict. Unlike XML, where you define your own tags, HTML comes with a set of predefined tags. The most common tags are briefly described in the following sections.

HTML Structure

An HTML document starts with a document type, followed by an < html > tag, which is comparable to the document root of an XML document. Within that, a tag for header and body might be included. In the case ...