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HTML <html> tag

Examples

Simple HTML5 document:

<! DOCTYPE html>
<Html>
<Head>
<Meta charset = "utf-8">
<Title> Document Title </ title>
</ Head>

<Body>
Content of the document ......
</ Body>

</ Html>

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Browser Support

Internet ExplorerFirefoxOperaGoogle ChromeSafari

All major browsers support the <html> tag.


Tag definitions and instructions

<Html> tag tells the browser that this is an HTML document.

<Html> tag is an HTML document outermost element.

<html> tag all other HTML elements (except <! DOCTYPE> tag) containers.


Differences between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

HTML5, add a new property: manifest.


Differences between HTML and XHTML

xmlns attribute is required in XHTML but not in HTML.

However, even if the XHTML document <html> not use the xmlns attribute, HTML validator on the W3C is not being given. This is because "xmlns = http: //www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" is a fixed value, even if you do not include it, the value will be added to the <html> tag.


Attributes

New: HTML5 new property.

属性 描述
manifest New URL 定义一个 URL,在这个 URL 上描述了文档的缓存信息。
xmlns http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml HTML 不支持。只有 XHTML 支持。 规定 XML 的 namespace 属性(如果您需要您的内容符合 XHTML,则使用这个属性。)。


Global Properties

<html> tag supports HTML global properties .