BGE – Blank HTML Page

Open notepad++ and enter the code below.


<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title> </title>
  </head>
  <body>

  </body>
</html>

Save this as blank.html in your web folder.

  • <!doctype html> – This identifies the page as a HTML5 document.
  • <html></html> – The contents of this tag is HTML.
  • <head></head> – This is the head area of the website, the contents are not displayed on the site but can be used by the browser.
  • <meta charset=”UTF-8″> – This sets the character set of the site to unicode.
  • <title></title> – Title tag contains the text that appears as the title of the site, this is displayed at the top of the windows or on the tag.
  • <body></body> – The contents of this tag can be displayed on the browser window.

Notice that tags can contain other tags in thier contents, so for example the <head> contains <title>.