WebHints: Document Structure

All HTML documents should have the following structure:

<HTML>
     <HEAD>
     header material
     </HEAD>
     <BODY>
     body material
     </BODY>
</HTML>

The header describes the document.
The body contains the document.

Header Elements

<TITLE>...</TITLE> - Should be preferably less than 60 chars.
<ISINDEX> - Indicates the document is searchable.
<LINK HREF=...> - Indicates a related document. Largely unsupported.
<META ...> - Points to the original source of a document. - Largely unsupported.
<NEXTID> - Used only by programs.

Body Elements

HTML supports six levels of headings using the following syntax:

<H1>A Level-One Heading</H1>
<H2>A Level-Two Heading</H2>
<H3>A Level-Three Heading</H3>
<H4>A Level-Four Heading</H4>
<H5>A Level-Five Heading</H5>
<H6>A Level-Six Heading</H6>

The heading hierarchy cannot skip levels.