HyperText Markup Language/Tag List/html
Use
edithtml
wraps the whole HTML document. The opening tag is placed directly after the doctype declaration, the end tag at the end of the document.
It is recommended that the primary language of the document is indicated with either the lang
attribute for HTML or the xml:lang
attribute for XHTML. XHTML 1.0 documents served with a MIME type of text/html
should use both lang
and xml:lang
.
Example
editAn English language HTML 4.01 document.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Example page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Example paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
An English language XHTML 1.0 document.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Example page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Example paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Required attributes
editxmlns
editIn XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 xmlns
is required. xmlns
defines the XML namespace. Its value in XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 is http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
.
Standard attributes
editNotes
editThis tag is optional in HTML 4.01, but it is strongly recommend to use it.
It is required in XHTML.
More info
editThe HTML element in HTML 4.01 Specification
The <html> tag on W3Schools