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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Shruti Sharma
Shruti Sharma
326 Points

whats the html element that can serve as a doc root?

what is the html element that can serve as a doc root?

3 Answers

Jovanny Elias
Jovanny Elias
16,204 Points
Jovanny Elias
Jovanny Elias
16,204 Points

This is your basic structure for an html document. Your root element is the opening and closing html tag. 

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

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

</html>
Jovanny Elias
Jovanny Elias
16,204 Points
Jovanny Elias
Jovanny Elias
16,204 Points

<!DOCTYPE HTML> is what lets the browser know what type of document it is and how it should read it. The root element is 

<html>

........

</html>

You write all your html inside these tags or it will not be read properly on the browser