HEAD document head XHTML 1.01 Strict

head

Purpose

document head

Description

This element encloses information about a document. It is unordered information and not part of the document's body. Note that you only have one head (and one body). For example:

 <head>
  <title>Basic HTML Demonstration Document</title>
  <link Rev="made" Href="mailto:john@december.com" />
  <meta Name="description" Content="Demonstrates basic features of HTML" />
  <meta Name="keywords" Content="HTML, hypertext, basics, learning, reference" />
 </head>

Start tag

Required <head>

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
id	ID	#IMPLIED
lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (backwards compatible); language code as RFC3066
profile	CDATA	#IMPLIED	Uniform Resource Identifier as per RFC2396; a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI; named dictionary of meta info
xml:lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (as per XML 1.0 spec); language code as RFC3066

Content

End tag

Required </head>

Referenced in

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