HTML <html> tag

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HTML <html> tag

The <html> tag tells the browser to treat this file as as HTML document.

The <html> tag represents the root of an HTML document.

All other HTML elements must be descendants of <html> element. (except for the <!DOCTYPE> tag).

Note: Do not forget to mention the language used in the HTML document using the lang global attribute.

Example

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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en-US"> <body> <p>My First HTML Page.</p> </body> </html>

Attributes

The following are the attributes of <html> tag. Also try Global attributes.

AttributeValueExplanation
xmlnshttp://www.w3.org/1999/xhtmlSpecifies the XML namespace attribute (Optional).
langcountry_code-language_codeSpecifies the language of an element.

Deprecated Attributes

The following attributes should not be used in any case.

AttributeValueExplanation
manifestURLSpecifies the URI of a resource which contains the list of items to be cached.
versiontextSpecifies the version of the html document type definition.

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