Basic page setup

The text of an HTML page starts with <HTML> and it ends with </HTML>.

Within those brackets are two parts, the header part, delimited by <HEAD> and </HEAD>, and the body part, delimited by <BODY> and </BODY>.
The header part contains the title of the page, displayed on top of the window frame and enclosed between <TITLE> and </TITLE>.
The body part contains the text and the formatting commands for the page.

So the basic HTML page setup looks like:

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>Title of page, displayed on window frame </TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

Text and formatting commands

</BODY>

</HTML>

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Updated December 1, 1998, Peter Klok, pfk@hef.kun.nl