HTML: basic structure of a HTML coding.

<!DOCTYPE html>
< html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
< body>

<h1>my first code</h1>
<p>My first page.</p>

</body>
</html>

The DOCTYPE declaration defines the document type to be HTML
The text between <html> and </html> describes an HTML document
The text between <head> and </head> provides information about the document
The text between <title> and </title> provides a title for the document
The text between <body> and </body> describes the visible page content
The text between <h1> and </h1> describes a heading
The text between <p> and </p> describes a paragraph

What is a HTML tag?

HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets:

<tag>content</tag> 

HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </p>
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag.
The end tag is written like the start tag, but with a slash before the tag name .

HTML Page Structure

Below is HTML page structure:

<html>

<head>

<title>Page title</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<p>This is another paragraph.</p>

</body>

</html>

	Only the <body> area (the white area) is displayed by the browser.