An HTML body tag is a basic type of placeholder for a part of an HTML document. In HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, a fundamental web programming language, these markers are called tags. The HTML framework includes specific “open and close” tag elements that help define the parts of a web page.
Body tags are found at the beginning and end of a line of HTML code.
Like other HTML tags, an HTML body tag set has an opening tag and a closing tag. They both use a set of triangle brackets and the closing tag, like other HTML closing tags, uses a backslash. All the code between the opening HTML body tag and the closing HTML body tag is related to what is in the body of the HTML document.
The HTML framework includes specific “open and close” tag elements that help define the parts of a web page.
One way to define the body of the HTML document is to show what is not included in it. An example of an HTML code module that exists outside of the body is the HTML header. The HTML header also has a similar opening and closing tag structure. The HTML header comes before the HTML body and contains elements like the HTML title.
Almost all other familiar HTML code structures for images, text, video, tables, and other elements are included in the body of the HTML document. The HTML body represents the entire web page as a unit of code. This makes it easy to understand where to open and close the HTML body.
Programmers also have other ways to use the opening HTML body tag. This tag can be used in conjunction with commands about the body’s background color, body text styling, and much more. These elements are included in additional tags that programmers often write next to the opening tag of the HTML body.
As the programming community works to improve the functionality and design of websites, HTML is used less and less to create pages, although it still provides a fundamental structure. Many of the layout frameworks in HTML can now be done in other languages, such as Cascading Style Sheets or CSS, where a “global” layout tool makes many individual HTML tags and commands unnecessary. An organization called W3C seeks to provide consistency and universal standards for languages like CSS to help the web programming community recognize consistent coding practices. Today’s web programmers are still learning HTML, but they’re also learning how to apply other languages to it for more diverse and complex website code.
