How to define information about the document using HTML ?
The <head> tag in HTML is used to define the head portion of the document which contains metadata related to the document. This tag can contain other head elements such as <title>, <meta>, <link>, <style>, <link> etc.
The <head> element was mandatory In HTML 4.01, but it can be omitted in the current HTML 5.
Syntax:
<head> <title>Title of the document</title> </head>
Attributes:
- profile: It is used to specify the URL to a document which contains one or more meta data profiles for browsers to clearly understand the information.
Example 1:
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> < html > < head > < title > How to define information about the document using HTML? </ title > </ head > < body style = "text-align: center;" > < h1 style = "color: green;" > w3wiki </ h1 > < p > A computer science portal </ p > </ body > </ html > |
Output:
Example 2: In this example, a CSS stylesheet named style.css is linked using the <link> tag.
CSS File:
body { text-align: center; } h1 { color: green; }
HTML File:
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> < html > < head > < title > How to define information about the document using HTML? </ title > < link rel = "stylesheet" href = "style.css" > </ head > < body > < h1 >w3wiki</ h1 > < p > A computer science portal </ p > </ body > </ html > |
Output:
Supported Browsers:
- Google Chrome
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari