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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Chris Aaron
Chris Aaron
Courses Plus Student 1,254 Points

What is a head tag?

I thought I knew what the head and body elements are. I am new and obviously do not. I added the head and body elements but it is wrong because it is telling me to not forget about the head tag. Please help. Thanks

1 Answer

Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points
Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points

The head tag is where important browser information is located i.e. the title of the page, the type of character encoding, etc. The body is where the content of your page is located.

The majority of html elements have an open and closing tag. This is the standard setup of an html5 document:

<!DOCTYPE html> 

<html>
    <head> 
        <title>I'm the site title</title>
    </head>

   <body>


    </body>

</html>