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How to define the root of an HTML document ?

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The <html> tag in HTML is used to define the root of HTML and XHTML documents. The <html> tag tells the browser that it is an HTML document. It is the second outer container for everything that appears in an HTML document followed by the <!DOCTYPE> tag. The <html> tag requires a starting and end tag.

Syntax:

<html> HTML Contents... </html>

Attribute Value: The <html> tag contains single attribute xmlns whose attribute value is http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml. It is used to define namespace attributes.

Example 1:

HTML 
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head>     <title>         How to define the root         of an HTML document?     </title> </head> <body style="text-align: center;">     <h1 style="color: green;">         GeeksforGeeks     </h1>          <p>         A computer science portal     </p>  </body> </html>

Output:

Example 2:

HTML 
<!DOCTYPE html     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head>     <title>         How to define the root         of an HTML document?     </title> </head> <body style="text-align: center;">     <h1 style="color: green;">         GeeksforGeeks     </h1>          <p>         A computer science portal     </p> </body>  </html>

Output:

Supported Browsers:

  • Google Chrome
  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
  • Opera
  • Safari

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