HTML Head

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# HTML Head

## Examples

The title of a document
The title information inside a head element is not displayed in the browser window.

One target for all links
This example demonstrates how to use the base tag to let all the links on a page open in a new window.

## The Head Element

The head element contains general information, also called meta-information, about a document. Meta means "information about".

You can say that meta-data means information about data, or meta-information means information about information.

## Information Inside the Head Element

The elements inside the head element should not be displayed by a browser.

According to the HTML standard, only a few tags are legal inside the head section. These are: <base>, <link>, <meta>, <title>, <style>, and <script>.

Look at the following illegal construct:

    <head>
      <p>This is some text</p>
    </head>

In this case the browser has two options:

- Display the text because it is inside a paragraph element
- Hide the text because it is inside a head element

If you put an HTML element like <h1> or <p> inside a head element like this, most browsers will display it, even if it is illegal.

Should browsers forgive you for errors like this? We don't think so. Others do.

## Head Tags

Tag | Description
--- | ---
<head> | Defines information about the document
<title> | Defines the document title
<base> | Defines a base URL for all the links on a page
<link> | Defines a resource reference
<meta> | Defines meta information

Tag | Description
--- | ---
<!DOCTYPE> | Defines the document type. This tag goes before the <html> start tag.

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