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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 the head tag?

What is the head tag? It says that I am missing it. Please help. Thanks.

3 Answers

Kevin Kenger
Kevin Kenger
32,834 Points
Kevin Kenger
Kevin Kenger
32,834 Points

Hey Chris,

The head tag goes after the html tag, and is usually where you'll put your title, meta information and links to external files, like stylesheets.

It looks like this:

<html>
<head></head>

</html>
Darrel Lyons
Darrel Lyons
2,991 Points
Darrel Lyons
Darrel Lyons
2,991 Points 
<html>
<head>
</head>
</html>
badouj boubaker
badouj boubaker
981 Points
badouj boubaker
badouj boubaker
981 Points

the head tag is

<head> </head> its come after html tag <html></html>