As discussed in an earlier post regarding the basic elements of a HTML document, this tutorial will target the basic elements of the HEAD tag in HTML. According to W3, there are six tags which can be used in the HEAD tag. They include scripts, title, keywords, CSS styles, links to media etc. The six tags which can be used are <base> ;<link> ; <meta> ; <script> ; <style> & <title> .

Also known as Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, MIME is used to describe message content types.  They are used in the HTML documents to tell the browser about the content type on the document being rendered. It extends the format of Internet mail to allow non-US-ASCII textual messages, non-textual messages, multipart message bodies, and non-US-ASCII information in message headers. It refers to an official Internet standard that specifies how messages must be formatted so that they can be exchanged between different email systems.

To start with learning HTML and making basic (static) websites we should know the main elements of a HTML web-page (document). These basic elements help us construct and structure our page to be search-engine friendly. The basic structure of an HTML document includes Tags which surround content and apply meaning to it. The main elements on an HTML documents have been described in the table below.

XHTML or Extensible Hypertext Markup Language is a family of XML markup languages. It is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML. XHTML is almost identical to HTML 4.01, it is HTML defined as an XML application and is recommended by W3. Unlike HTML, XHTML can be extended by anyone that uses it. New elements and attributes can be defined and added to those that already exist, making possible new ways to embed content and programming in a Web page.