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HTML Document
The following example is basic HTML document:
<!doctype html> <html lang=en> <head> Document metadata </head> <body> Document contents </body> </html>
Description
doctype
The DOCTYPE must be specified, and be top in the HTML document. That is, the DOCTYPE exists before the <html> start tag.
The DOCTYPE declaration is <!DOCTYPE html> and is case-insensitive in the HTML syntax.
<!DOCTYPE html>
or
<!doctype html>
See also 2.2 doctype(HTML5 differences from HTML4).
html element
The html element represents the root of an HTML document.
- The html element usually has the lang attribute. The lang attribute Specifies the primary language for the contents of the element.
- The <html> ... </html> contains a head element followed by a body element.
<html lang="en"> </html>
See also The html element
head element
The head element represents a collection of metadata for the Document.
- The <head> ... </head> contains the title, and information on style sheets and scripts.
- Contents in the head tag are not displayed on a Web browser.
<head> </head>
See also The head element
body element
The body element represents the main content of the document.
- The <body> ... </body> contains the markup with the visible content.
<body> <p>Here is the visible content</p> </body>
See also The body element
These tag composes the base of HTML document.
The next chapter introduction the "document metadata".