<html>

Root element that wraps the entire HTML document.

<head>

Container for metadata (not displayed on page):

<body>

Holds all visible content: text, images, UI components, etc.

<meta>

Placed inside <head>. Provide metadata for browsers and search engines.

Name Purpose Example
charset Sets character encoding (usually UTF-8) <meta charset="UTF-8">
viewport Enables responsive scaling <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
description Page summary for SEO <meta name="description" content="...">
author Specifies the page author <meta name="author" content="Merrick Cai">
robots Controls indexing/crawling <meta name="robots" content="index, follow">