Step by Step HTML5

2 Setting Up the
Document Structure
In this chapter, you will learn how to
4 Specify the document type.
4 Create the HTML, Head, and Body sections.
4 Create paragraphs and line breaks.
4 Specify a page title and keywords.
4 Publish a file to a server.
Every society needs an infrastructure with certain rules that everyone agrees to for the
general public good. For example, we have all agreed that a red light means “stop” and a
green light means “go.” Everyone who wants to participate in the transportation system
must play by those rules, or chaos ensues.
HTML is the same way. You can get creative with your Web content, but there must be
an underlying structure in place for Web browsers to read and render your Web pages
properly. That means the document must contain certain tags that delineate its major
sections and indicate to the browser what type of coding the document uses.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to structure a document with the correct underlying tags.
You’ll learn how to specify the type of HTML you are writing and how to create Head and
Body sections. You’ll also learn how to create paragraph and line breaks, specify a page
title, enter hidden keywords by which your page can be found in search engines, and
publish a test page to a Web server.
See Also Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Key Points
section at the end of this chapter.
Practice Files Before you can use the practice files provided for this chapter, you need
to download and install them from the book’s companion content location. See “Using
the Practice Files” at the beginning of this book for more information.
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