HTML - <html> Tag

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

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

In HTML documents, the <html> tag accepts the "lang" attribute, which is by default unknown. If you pass the value of the lang attribute, then the user will know that the content of this element in this language like English, Spanish, French, and so on.

Supported attribute for the <html> tag −

S.No. Attributes & Description Values
1 Lang − to declare the language of the webpage.
  • en−English
  • es−Spanish
  • fr−French

Syntax

Following is the syntax of <html> tag − 

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

Example

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-->

On running the above code, the output window will pop up displaying the text on the webpage.

Example

In the following example, we are creating an HTML document and using the lang attribute of the <html> tag, as follows −

<!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-->

When we run the above code, it will generate an output consisting of the text used in the code displayed on the webpage.

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