Name
html — HTML 4.01 | HTML5
Synopsis
<html> . . . </html>
This is the root element of HTML and XHTML documents, meaning
all other elements are contained within it. The html
element has no ancestors. The opening
<html>
tag is placed at
beginning of the document, just after the document type declaration.
The closing tag goes at the end of the document. In HTML, if the tags
are omitted, html
is still implied
as the root element.
Start/End Tags
HTML: Optional/Optional; XHTML: Required/Required
Attributes
Internationalization, HTML5 Global Attributes
id="
text
"
XHTML and HTML5 only. Assigns a unique identifying name to the element.
manifest="
URL
"
HTML5 only. Points to a cache used with the offline web application API.
version="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
Deprecated in HTML 4.01. Not in HTML5. In HTML, the value of
version
is a Formal Public Identifier (FPI) that specifies the version of HTML the document uses (the value above specifies 4.01). In HTML 4.01, the version attribute is deprecated because it is redundant with information provided in the DOCTYPE declaration. In XHTML 1.0, the value ofversion
has not been defined.xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
Required for XHTML only. In an XHTML document, this declares the XML namespace for the document.
Example (HTML)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/HTML4.01/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Document Title</title> </head> <body> <p>Content of document . . . </p> </body> </html>
Example (XHTML)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ...
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