# Starting With Html.
**HTML** stands for Hypertext Markup Language. This is used to create a skeleton of a webpage. It has an opening and closing tag such as <tag> </tag>. Some of them are self-closing tags i.e <br/>, <img/> and more.
A basic website can be built through HTML but it will not have a design and interaction thus it can be fulfilled by using CSS, javascript and other frameworks but being a basic foundation of a website it is important to build expertise in HTML.
A basic structure of an HTML is:
```xml
Document
```
The function of the following default tags are:
1. `` This is a tag used to describe the document type which is going to be written below i.e HTML.
2. `` This tag is used to describe the language type in HTML i.e English.
3. `metadata` This is the data used to tell about the content of HTML data. It is important for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
4. `` Title is used to define the title of an HTML on the browser tab.
5. ![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1679849939876/69eff53f-4814-4189-a2db-b922212c7ef4.png align="center")
`<body>` The Main content that will be visible on the screen will come here.
Besides this, other tags are frequently used in <body> of the HTML i.e `<h1>, <div>, <p>, <hr>,<br>, <table>` with their respective closing tags.
Let's write a basic HTML that will contain <h1>, <br>, <h1>, and <p> tags.
![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1679850805580/469055c2-9554-45af-b1fd-28fd59af32a8.png align="center")