Basic structure of an HTML document

The basic structure of an HTML document consists of a few essential elements that define the document's structure and content. Here's the basic structure:

The different parts with a simple explanaition:

  1. <!DOCTYPE html>: This declaration defines the document type and version of HTML you're using. In this case, it's HTML5.

  2. <html>: The root element of an HTML document.

  3. <head>: The head section contains metadata about the document, like the character encoding and the document's title.

  4. <meta charset="UTF-8">: This meta tag sets the character encoding to UTF-8, which supports a wide range of characters from various languages.

  5. <title>: This is where you set the title of your HTML document, which is displayed in the browser's title bar or tab.

  6. <body>: The body section contains the visible content of the webpage that users see in the browser.

You can add your content between the opening and closing <body> tags. This includes text, images, links, forms, and other HTML elements.