HTML Sample Basic Structure Tags

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

  <head>

    <title>My First HTML Page</title>

  </head>

  <body>

    <h1>Welcome to My Website</h1>

    <p>This is my first paragraph. I’m learning HTML!</p>

  </body>

</html>

(SEE RESULT)



Explanation of Each Tag

TagPurpose
<!DOCTYPE html>Declares the HTML5 document type. Always goes first. 
<html>Root of the page. All HTML content goes inside this. 
<head>Contains info about the page (not shown on the page). 
<title>Sets the browser tab’s title. 
<body>Contains everything you want to show on the screen. 
<h1>A main heading. 
<p>A paragraph of text.