Basic Concepts of HTML

yogi — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:04:43 +0000

Before getting into the details of making HTML documents accessible, an understanding of basic HTML concepts is needed. If you are familiar with the general structure and coding of HTML , you can skip this page and move onto the the first common HTML element to be covered, Making Images Accessible.

You must have the , and container tags in every HTML file. The tag tells the browser that this is an HTML document. You must begin and end your files with this tag. The tag contains general information like the title of your document. The tag holds all your content: words, pictures, artwork and other stuff.

HTML is also not case sensitive. That means, you can use either lowercase or uppercase. is the same as . For consistency, use either one or the other. It’s best not to mix and match. For our purposes, I have written our code in lowercase.

The third rule is that every html page has two parts: the head and the body. There must be , and container tags in every HTML file. To build any web page, you will need four primary tags: , , and <body>. These are all container tags and must appear as pairs with the beginning and an ending.</p> </article> </main></body></html>

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Basic Concepts of HTML