HTML HTML document outer container HTML 4.01 Strict

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" HTML document. 
  </P>
 </BODY>
</HTML>

Start tag

Optional <HTML>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text; lang, dir
lang	NAME	#IMPLIED	language code as RFC1766; language code

Content

( HEAD , BODY )

End tag

Optional </HTML>

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