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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by umairbalani
umairbalani
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Create the HTML element that will serve as the document root.

What does HTML element that will serve as the documents root means? What I'm suppose to do?

1 Answer

Dave McFarland
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Dave McFarland
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Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
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umair balani

HTML uses tags to tell a web browser what each part of a document is. For example the <h1> tag is used to create a "Heading 1" -- a large, important headline on a page.

All of the tags you use to create a page go inside that <html> tag. We often use the word element to mean tag as well. Tags usually come in pairs, so you add the HTML element to a page using an "opening" and a "closing" tag like this:

<html>

</html>

The other HTML you add to a page will go inside of this set of tags.