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Breakdown of Page

These are the tags used in the example:

TagMeaning
<!DOCTYPE>Defines the HTML version used in the document. In this case it is HTML5.
See the doctypes topic for more information.
<html>Opens the page. No markup should come after the closing tag (</html>). The lang attribute declares the primary language of the page using the ISO language codes (en for English).
See the Content Language topic for more information.
<head>Opens the head section, which does not appear in the main browser window but mainly contains information about the HTML document, called metadata. It can also contain imports from external stylesheets and scripts. The closing tag is </head>.
<meta>Gives the browser some metadata about the document. The charset attribute declares the character encoding. Modern HTML documents should always use UTF-8, even though it is not a requirement. In HTML, the <meta> tag does not require a closing tag.
See the Meta topic for more information.
<title>The title of the page. Text written between this opening and the closing tag (</title>) will be displayed on the tab of the page or in the title bar of the browser.
<body>Opens the part of the document displayed to users, i.e. all the visible or audible content of a page. No content should be added after the closing tag </body>.
<h1>A level 1 heading for the page.
See headings for more information.
<p>Represents a common paragraph of text.
  1. HTML5, 11.2 Non-conforming features
  2. .htm is inherited from the legacy DOS three character file extension limit.