Anatomy of an HTML page

Web pages are written in HTML format, which is a "plain text" file that uses "markup tags" to control the appearance of the displayed text. Tags come in pairs that are nested, and define sections, paragraphs, lists, in-line enhancements, etc. The whole page , for instance, is bracketed by <html> ... </html>

Author will be very useful if I print the source of your page, so I can give you credit!
"Charset" is useful to specify encoding if you use any accented characters, to avoid misunderstandings. (The other main option is ISO-8859-1, for Western European languages.)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
	<title>Hello Page</title>
        <meta name="author" content="Lin Jensen">
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>
	Hello
	World!
    </h1>
	How are you?
	How's the weather in <em>Lennoxville?</em>
    <p>
	This is a paragraph.
	blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah 
	blah, blah <strong>blah,              blah</strong> blah, blah 
    </p>
  </body>
</html>

This source looks like:

Hello World!

How are you? How's the weather in Lennoxville?

This is a paragraph. blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah

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