An HTML file is created as a plain text document, and can be constructed in a program such as Notepad. Most HTML files contain more than simply text; for example most pages have a specific background color, or contain graphics, and text formatting. In order to accomplish these tasks, one uses tags. All HTML files use tags to identify them as HTML files, and to format the content of the page.

Within an HTML file, the page is separated into sections. The content of the entire file is enclosed within the HTML element. This identifies the file as an HTML file. The head provides authoring information and another element, the title. The title contains the title of the page, which will be displayed on the browser title bar. All of the main content of the page is contained within the body element.

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