This tag indicates the title of this HTML page. The title is what is displayed on the upper left corner of the browser when you view a web page. For example, right now you can see there "Basic Tags: HTML, head, title, meta, body". That is the title of this page.

The title tag is important when it comes to search engine ranking. Many of the search engines pay special attention to the text in the <title> tag. This is because (logically) that words in the <title> tag indicate what the page content is.

• bgcolor: This is the background color of the entire HTML document, and may be specified either by the color name directly or by the six-digit hex code.
• alink: The color of the links.
• vlink: The color of the visited links.
• topmargin: The margin from the top of the browser window.
• leftmargin: The margin from the left of the browser window.