Understand the format of an HTML document

There are two sections to an HTML document. The whole document starts and ends with the tag, which is there to inform your browser that it should interpret the code as HTML. The document is then split up into two parts: the head (the code within the tags) and the body (within the tags):

Here is an example of a very basic HTML document:


<title>How to Learn HTML - wikiHow</title>
This is a minimal HTML document