HTML HTML document outer container XHTML 1.0 Transitional

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html

Purpose

document root element

Description

This is the outermost element of an html document. The html element thus contains all other elements inside the head and body elements. You should have just one html container in a document. For example:

<html>
 <head>
  <title>
   Hello World Demonstration Document
  </title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <h1>
   Hello, World!
  </h1>
  <p>
   This is a minimal "hello world" document. 
  </p>
 </body>
</html>

Start tag

Required <html>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (backwards compatible); language code as RFC3066
xml:lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (as per XML 1.0 spec); language code as RFC3066
xmlns	CDATA	#FIXED 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'	Uniform Resource Identifier as per RFC2396; a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI

Content

( head , body )

End tag

Required </html>

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