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HTML

David Collins
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David Collins
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Posted by David Collins
David Collins
Courses Plus Student 2,598 Points

Basic HTML structure

Should I use the language attribute as a common practice for my basic structure in HTML? In some of the code that I have seen its not in there. Now this is what my basic HTML structure looks like

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
< head>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <title> My Page </title>
 </head>
 <body>
 </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Thas Eagans
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Thas Eagans
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Thas Eagans
Thas Eagans
Courses Plus Student 2,533 Points

Language is an 'optional' attribute, and English is the default. So whether you specifically add it or not, the Browser automatically assumes that the page's language is English. So you can decide whether you wanna make it your practice.

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