HTML - the top-level element in HTML
Purpose
Essentially, an HTML file in its entirety is an HTML element, but
usually the start and end tags are omitted.
See the description of the basic structure of HTML
documents.
Typical rendering
Using an explicit HTML element does not affect the document rendering.
Basic syntax
<HTML>
the document head and body
</HTML>
Possible attributes
Allowed context
(The HTML element is the top level element in the HTML language.
See the description of the basic structure of HTML
documents.)
Contents
HEAD followed by BODY.
Examples
Example hello.html:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<TITLE>Hello</TITLE>
Hello world
Notes
If used, the start and end HTML tags must go around the
entire document but directly after the
DOCTYPE declaration.
The VERSION attribute is rarely used, and the information in it
is almost never used by browsers or other software.
To specify the HTML version used, use a
DOCTYPE declaration.
Date of last update:
2010-12-16.