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HTML <html> Tag

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Example

A simple HTML5 document:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
The content of the document......
</body>

</html>

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Browser Support

The <html> tag is supported in all major browsers.

Definition and Usage

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

The <html> tag represents the root of an HTML document.

The <html> tag is the container for all other HTML elements (except for the <!DOCTYPE> tag).

Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

HTML5 has added a new attribute: manifest.

Differences Between HTML and XHTML

The xmlns attribute is required in XHTML, but is invalid in HTML.

However, the HTML validator at http://w3.org does not complain when the xmlns attribute is missing in an XHTML document. This is because the namespace "xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" is default, and will be added to the <html> tag even if you do not include it.

Attributes

New : New in HTML5.

Attribute	Value	Description
manifestNew	URL	Specifies the address of the document's cache manifest (for offline browsing)
xmlns	http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml	Not supported in HTML. Only for XHTML. Specifies the XML namespace attribute (If you need your content to conform to XHTML)