HTML - <html> Tag

HTML <html> tag is very important for the HTML document and is used to indicate the beginning and end of HTML document. The <html> tag represents the root of an HTML document.

The <html> tag is the container that contains all the other HTML tags or elements except for the <!Doctype> declaration, which is located before the opening <html> tag. All the HTML elements must be inside or between the <html> opening and </html> closing tags.

Syntax

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

Attributes

xmlns: This attribute represents XML namespace attribute, if we need our content to confirm to XHTML. The default value is http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.

Note: In HTML documents, we should always add the the "lang" attribute in <html> tag to specify the language of our HTML document. Which is by default unknown accpeted values are the language code.

Try to click the icon run button to run the following HTML code to see the output.

Examples of HTML html Tag

In the bellow examples we will see the usage to html tag in the HTML Document.

Using html Tag to create HTML Document

In the following example, we are creating a simple HTML page to see the usage of the <html> tag.

<!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-->

Using html tag with lang Attribute

In the following example, we are creating an HTML document and using the lang attribute.

<!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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