The HTML specification does not require all HTML tags, but following closer to form makes for more compliance with HTML and SGML client parsers. The commands found on the Header, Body and Footer popUp menus are designed to add HTML structure tags to your document.
The beginning and end of an HTML document is marked with the HTML language tags <HTML> and </HTML>.
An HTML document header is delimited with the tags <HEAD> and </HEAD>. The document header contains information used by a browser program to navigate and keep track of document history, and shouldn't contain any content other than HTML comments.
All HTML documents should have a document title, enclosed by <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags. The document title should be placed between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags.
The document body is delimited with the tags <BODY> and </BODY>. All document content should occur within the body tags.
A sample structure is shown below, complete with divisions for Header, Body and Footer sections:
ΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇö start of Header area ΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇö
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Document Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
ΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇö start of Body area ΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇö
<BODY>
Your document content goes here…
ΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇö start of Footer area ΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇö
<ADDRESS>
The author's address information goes here (optional).
</ADDRESS>
</BODY>
</HTML>
ΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇö end of Footer area ΓÇöΓÇöΓÇôΓÇôΓÇôΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇöΓÇö
Note that HTML.edit concatenates the Header+Body+Footer text areas on exported text files using the Export Document command, so you could put the entire contents of your file within any one of the text areas, and you would obtain the same effect. HTML.edit adds the HTML structure tags as shown above, and parses the text accordingly.
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