HTML Document Structure Overview
HTML Document Structure
An HTML document can be divided into many sections, and these sections are used for some specific purpose. A few of the major ones are head, body, main, and footer. In all these, there is a specific role that a section plays in the process of arranging content, along with providing some meta-information.
Head Section
This is the metadata and reference of resources that make up part of the page. Although this isn't always shown on the page, it makes a lot clearer what's going on that allows a great deal. Meta Information. Description, author, and character encoding.
Title
The name of the page as seen under the title bar of a browser or tab.
External Links:
These are the links to the external files, such as CSS stylesheets and JavaScript files, that one must refer to in order for the page to format and function appropriately.
Scripts:
These are the links to the JavaScript files that might make the page interactive.
The body section
All those things, in other words, which really exist and the user is working on or seeing them. That part of the webpage carries all those things that a user works on or views. In this regard, everything will be comprised of such things as texts, images, links, forms, etc.
Headings:
Content's structure and hierarchy. It is also written as a heading. The major heading has to be very large, and there is a subheading and sub-subheading.
Any material that is depicted text it could be in paragraphs, descriptions, or just articles.
Lists:
They usually appear whenever the need to produce information in almost any order in priority arises;
if un odered forms, such as bulleted forms or also numbered ones, may be needed on a page,
Images:
Which are visually contained within a single page.
Hyperlinks help visitors to have glimpses of different pages as well as on others' websites.
Major Section
It utilizes a basic section that is meant to pull out the core content of a page. A main section will contain the data that is most relevant and closely related to the core objective of a page. The secondary elements, such as navigation or footer, should be placed outside of that space and used in the main section.
This will make the search engines as well as the screen readers know which content of a page is the most important.
Footer Section
The down portion of a page is used to provide information not on the main page, like that secondary information.
Copyright Information:
Copyright notices or legal information go into the footer.
Links to Policies: This includes the privacy policy of the website, terms of service, and also other legal pages.
Social Media Links:
Either through a link to the social media page or any other way of connecting the owners with their social media account.
Other HTML Elements
Apart from these broad divisions, there are many more forms used in creating and detailing a particular web page:
Headline:
It must carry the main menu of the page, the logo, and the introduction.
Nav:
Nav means a navigation link that would feature on the page either in the header or the sidebar.
Section:
This is an element that combines related content, although it can also be part of a bigger page's section.
Such content, therefore, infers something that exists as a complete unit and can also be distributed in an independent form. This may include an article of the news, a blog post, among others.
Conclusion
An HTML document is composed of several sections that help in the realization of a particular objective. So next are the header section, consisting of metadata and resources, and the body section, consisting only of a viewable area or content, visible to users. A third section, also defined, is named the main content section that can render the overall content. The footer section is that part that is used in the presentation of ancillary information in a way that leaves the page sufficiently well-studded with content readable to users and to crawler search engines.
