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Boiler Plate

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.png"/>
    <title> Page Title </title>
    <meta name="description" content="Text to add a description">
    <meta name="author" content="Author Name">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <main>
      <h1>Welcome to My Website</h1>
    </main>
    <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Use this code as a starting point for HTML pages.

Classes and Ids

<div class="multiple"></div>
<div class="multiple"></div>
<div class="multiple"></div>

<section id="single"></section>

Use classes to target multiple elements, ids to target only one.

Social Meta Tags

<!-- Open Graph / Facebook -->
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://example.com">
<meta property="og:title" content="Title Here">
<meta property="og:description" content="describe website here">
<meta property="og:image" content="public/pic.jpg">
    
<!-- Twitter -->
<meta property="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta property="twitter:url" content="https://example.com">
<meta property="twitter:title" content="Title Here">
<meta property="twitter:description" content="describe website here"> 
<meta property="twitter:image" content="public/metapic.jpg">

Use this code to give a different appearance for when your website is posted on social platforms.

Style

<head>
  <style>
    h1 {color:red;}
    p {color:blue;}
  </style>
</head>

Add CSS Styling inside within HTML Pages.

Comments

<!-- Comment Here -->

Code will be ignored. Useful to comment out code.