| Identifies the document as containing HTML elements. | HTML 2, 3.2, 4, 4.01, 5 |
HTML Syntax
<html>
<head> ... </head>
<body> ... </body>
The <html> element identifies the file as an HTML document.
All HTML documents should start with the <html> tag and end with the </html> tag.
An <html> element’s start tag can be omitted if the first thing inside the <html> element is not a comment.
An <html> element’s end tag can be omitted if the <html> element is not immediately followed by a comment.
The <html> element supports the following attributes, in addition to global attributes common to all HTML elements.
| xmlns | http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml | Specifies the XML namespace attribute (If you need your content to conform to XHTML) |
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample HTML document</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello, World.</p>
</body>
</html>
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HEAD BODY TITLE