head

Form

<head> ... </head>

Attributes

attribute default description
id none specifies the unique ID

Support

HTML2, HTML 3.02, HTML 4.01 [STF], XHTML 1.0 [STF], XHTML 1.1, XHTML Basic
Microsoft (MSDN)
[IE3 or later][Firefox 1 or later][Safari 1 or later][Opera 3 or later][Netscape 2 or later]

Explanation

The head tag specifies the page's header (the section containing informations about the page).

Related Tags

base, basefont, html, meta, title, DOCTYPE

Sample Code [Output]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=shift_jis">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample</h1>
<p>
The head section indicating the page's information is specified by the &lt;head&gt; tag.
</p>
</body>
</html>