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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by tootties glover
tootties glover
180 Points

How do you do a HTML doctype.

can you teach me how to do a html doctype?

index.html

2 Answers

Austin Dsilva
Austin Dsilva
2,516 Points
Austin Dsilva
Austin Dsilva
2,516 Points

stating a Doctype is simple as typing the code below as your very first line (!DOCTYPE html). and the remaining information goes in the between the html tags.

<!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>

        <head>
     <!--Head Description such as meta tags, stylesheets, title goes in here--!>
        </head>

       <body> 
      <!--Main Content that gets displayed in your browser hangs out here--!>
       </body>

</html>
Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points
Gunhoo Yoon
Gunhoo Yoon
5,027 Points

Actually, this can be seen many times in your first HTML track.

<!DOCTYPE html>

What this does is telling our browser the type of document we are using.