Title: hand-coding html question Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # hand-coding html question * [wp beginner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp-beginner/) * (@wp-beginner) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hand-coding-html-question/) * Hello, * I’m a very good html/css coder. * I was delighted (I think) to discover in a book I’m reading about WordPress that you can click on some sort of menu button and code-in hand-written pure html. That would be a huge advantage for me. * Is this true? * If so, I have a related question: A well-formed HTML page will have this: * * There would likely be other stuff like calls to external style sheets, maybe some javascript functions, etc. If I’m in the “code it by hand” mode within the WordPress dashboard, do I include all of the above html tags? Or would I merely code the content inside the body tags like: *

World of Golf

Golf is amazing.

”Golf

That’s a great golf course.

* The books I’m reading dance lightly around the code stuff, and it’s causing me to not be able to confirm some things. Thanks for any insights into this. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hand-coding-html-question/#post-1947070) * > > * All this main tags are already programed in files all you need to do is use body tags like you have on your post * >

World of Golf

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Golf is amazing.

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That’s a great golf course.

* You can use
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