The Minimal HTML Document

Here is a bare-bones example of HTML

<> simplest HTML example</TITLE>

<> is a level-one heading</H1>

Welcome to the world of HTML.

This is one paragraph.<>

And this is a second.<>

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HTML uses markup tags to tell the Web browser how to display the text. The above example uses:
the <> tag (and corresponding </TITLE> tag), which specifies the title of the document the <> header tag (and corresponding </H1>) the <> paragraph-separator tag HTML tags consist of a left angle bracket (<), (a ``less than'' symbol to mathematicians), followed by name of the tag and closed by a right angular bracket (>). Tags are usually paired, e.g. <> and </H1>. The ending tag looks just like the starting tag except a slash (/) precedes the text within the brackets. In the example, <> tells the Web browser to start formatting a level-one heading; </H1> tells the browser that the heading is complete. The primary exception to the pairing rule is the <> tag. There is no such thing as </P NOTE: HTML is not case sensitive. <> is equivalent to <> or <>.