| Separating Heads from Bodies | | Print | |
<html> and closing </html> tags, just as it was in the last example. Inside the <html> element, there
are two main parts to the page:
❑ The <head> element: Often referred to as the head of the page, this contains information about
the page (this is not the main content of the page). It is information such as a title and a
description of the page, or keywords that search engines can use to index the page. It consists of
the opening <head> tag, the closing </head> tag, and everything in between.
❑ The <body> element: Often referred to as the body of the page, this contains the information
you actually see in the main browser window. It consists of the opening <body> tag, closing
</body> tag, and everything in between.
Inside the <head> element of the first example page you can see a <title> element:
<head>
<title>Acme Toy Company: About Us</title>
</head>
Between the opening and closing title tags are the words Acme Toy Company: About Us, which is the
title of this Web page. If you remember Figure 1-2, which showed the screenshot of this page, I brought
your attention to the words right at the top of the browser in the center. This is where Internet Explorer
(IE) displays the title of a document; it is also the name IE uses when you save a page in your favorites.
The real content of your page is held in the <body> element, which is what you want users to read, and is
shown in the main browser window.
The head element contains information about the document, which is not displayed
within the main page itself. The body element holds the actual content of the page
that is viewed in your browser.
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