Example: A simple web page

This example demonstrates various aspects of a web page. Click on the Load page button to see the page generated by the HTML example.

From the Help page, you can find information on using features of this course, including how to use Web panels like this one, made up of two or more panes.

  • There are start tagsA marker showing the beginning of an element. and end tagsA marker showing the end of an element. for each elementA part of the content of a web page..
  • The tag namesThe characters used in a tag for a particular element. of the three elements are html, head, and body.
  • The head elementAn element that gives information about the page. and body elementAn element that contains all the content of the page. are both contained inside the html elementAn element for the entire document..
  • The contentInformation appearing between the start tag and end tag of an element. of the body element is the sentence "This is a very simple page."

This is only part of a web page; if you select the first line in the HTML pane and hover over the i to the left of line number, you will see a message noting that something is missing.

Glimpse of the future

We need to learn a little bit more before building our first page in the next module.

Note:

Hints:

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