HTML html Tag

The HTML html tag is the container that contains all other HTML elements (except for the !doctype tag which is located before the opening HTML tag). All other HTML elements are nested between the <html> and </html> tags.

Example


<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML meta tag</title>
</head>
<body style="background-color:orange">
Document content goes here
</body>
</html>

Attributes:

Attributes specific to this tag:
Attribute	Description
version	Specifies the HTML DTD version of the document. The version attribute is deprecated - use the `!doctype` tag instead.
content	Specifies the property's value.
scheme	Specifies a scheme to use to interpret the property's value (as declared in the content attribute).
http-equiv	Used for http response message headers. For example http-equiv can be used to refresh the page or to set a cookie. Values include content-type, expires, refresh and set-cookie.
Other Attributes:
Attribute	Description
lang	Language code
dir	Specifies the direction of the text

Also see the complete list of HTML tags

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