A Body of Work

After completing all the behind-the-scenes work, we have arrived at the main stage. The <body> tag holds all the displayed content for your webpage. This section is where we'll be spending most of the course, learning how to add, arrange, and style the elements that will form your website.

This section will appear as the second element inside the HTML-tag, following the head-tag.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
    <head>
        <title>Show Time</title>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <meta name="keywords" content="lights, camera, action">  
    </head>
    <body>
       ...
    </body>
</html>

The body-tag can be referenced in CSS to set various global style rules to your entire page. Other than that, there's not much else to customize when adding this section!

So, there we have it! That's every section of your basic HTML document structure. The next couple of pages will review what you've learned in this lesson. Knowing this information, we can then move on to lessons about adding content to a webpage.

Having a lot of website information is great, but the content is what people come to see.