HTML - <html> Tag

Quiz

The HTML <html> tag is crucial for an HTML document, marking its beginning and end. It represents the root of the HTML document.

The <html> tag specifies as the container for all other HTML tags or elements except for the <!Doctype> declaration, which determines the opening of <html> tag. All HTML elements must be placed within the opening <html> and closing </html> tags.

Syntax

Following is the syntax of <html> tag −

<html lang = "language code">
   Content...
</html>

Attributes

The HTML <html> tag supports both Global and Event attributes of HTML. Additionally, it accepts some specific attribute, which is listed bellow.

xmlns: This attribute represents the XML name-space attribute, which is necessary if we want our content to confirm to XHTML. The default value is http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.

Note: In HTML documents, we should always include the "lang" attribute in the <html> tag to specify the language of our document. By default, the language is unknown, and accepted values are language code.

Try clicking the icon "Run" button to execute the following HTML code and see the output.

Example: Creating <html> Tag

Here, we are creating a simple HTML page to demonstrate the usage of the <html> tag. Below, we will see how the <html> tag is used in an HTML document.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!--html opening tag-->
<head>
   <title>HTML html Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
   <p>Actual content goes here... </p>
</body>
</html>  <!--html closing tag-->

Example: <html> tag with Lang Attribute

In this example, we create an HTML document using the lang attribute. This code defines a basis web-page structure with a little and two paragraphs in the body section.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en"> <!--html opening tag-->
<head>
   <title>HTML html Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
   <p>Actual content goes here... </p>
   <p>This one is a body tag, your contents start from here! </p>
</body>
</html> <!--html closing tag-->

Supported Browsers

Tag
html	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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