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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story Comments and Doctype

Samantha Hagar
Samantha Hagar
805 Points
Posted by Samantha Hagar
Samantha Hagar
805 Points

What's the purpose of the <html>?

What's the purpose of the html after the Doctype?

2 Answers

Stephen Limmex
Stephen Limmex
32,604 Points
Stephen Limmex
Stephen Limmex
32,604 Points

The document type element tells the browser what kind of content to expect in a web page. In this case your are telling the browser that the document is a <html> document.

removericcardodedomenico
removericcardodedomenico
Courses Plus Student 961 Points

Don't we give the browser the same information before when we type at the beginning <!DOCTYPE html>?

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points
Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

The html element is the root of an html document where the document gets defined as an html document (telling the browser html is about to be used here). Once it's placed, all other elements are descendants of it.