Learning HTML 3.2 - Chapter 3: Basic Template



	Learning HTML 3.2: Basic Template
	Let's start with the minimum HTML 3.2 document, this is just about the simplest document you could create. Just fire up Notepad (or TeachText) and type the part in red. `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Title of the Page</TITLE> <BODY> <P>This message will be printed on the screen. </BODY> </HTML>` That's all there is to the minimum HTML 3.2 document. Here is what the tags do: `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">:` The prologue which identifies the document's type to the browser, here it's the HTML version 3.2 DTD defined by the W3C (http://www.w3c.org). `<HTML> ... </HTML>` All your code must be enclosed within the `<HTML>` tags. `<HEAD>` Contains information about the document that won't actually be displayed on the page. `<TITLE> ... </TITLE>` Specifies the title of the document in the title bar of the browser. `<BODY> .. </BODY>` Contains the actual text and markup that will display in the browser. `<P>` Start-of-Paragraph tag, note that there doesn't need to be a corresponding `</P>`. And here is the output of the document: `This message will be printed on the screen.` You've just written a complete functional HTML document. Now that you know the basic structure of an HTML document, we can look at the specific elements that are available.

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Learning HTML 3.2: Basic Template