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Fung How Lim
2,402 Points!DOCTYPE and HTML - puzzling!
Hi Treehouse; newbie here. It's been great learning from you guys, keep up the good work! :)
There's one thing i didnt quite understand from the video.. What is the point of putting !DOCTYPE and HTML in the code?
It is stated that DOCTYPE is used to communicate with the browser.. letting it know that it's a document. If your website has video, does this mean that DOCTYPE will not be used? if DOCTYPE is not coded, does this mean that the page wont show up in our browsers?
Sorry for the wall of text. I am really confused - yet psyched! Looking forward to your reply.
3 Answers
Ben Attenborough
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 32,769 PointsThere are different version of HTML out there so by declaring <!DOCTYPE html> you are explicitly telling the browser this is a html5 document. This is important because some features may be interpreted incorrectly if you do not add this to the top of the document. For more information see: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/Doctype
sagaya Abdulhafeez
1,600 PointsBasically DOCTYPE is the version of html you are using which means html5 there are other versions
Fung How Lim
2,402 PointsThanks for the link! Appreciate it!