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Chapter 2. Setting Up the Document Structure

In this chapter, you will:

• Specifying the Document Type

• Creating the HTML, Head, and Body Sections

• Create paragraphs and line breaks

• Specify a page title and keywords

Every society needs an infrastructure with certain rules that everyone agrees to for the general public good. For example, we have all agreed that a red light means “stop” and a green light means “go.” Everyone who wants to participate in the transportation system must play by those rules. If not, chaos ensues.

HTML is the same way. You can get creative with your web content, but there must be an underlying structure in place for web browsers to read and render your webpages properly. That means the document must contain certain tags that identify ...