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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Create the Content Containers

help on html please!

when using html(5) to create website, does the code <!DOCTYPE html> always come first?

Yes, that's how the browser knows it needs to Read HTML5.

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thank u, i will always remember that!

but what if am to be using python? will it be <!DOCTYPE python>?

Aaron Charles-Rhymes
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Aaron Charles-Rhymes
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I don't know much about python, but "NO" it will not be <!DOCTYPE python>

ok thanks 4 ur help!

Am sorry to bother u guys , but what about the 2n code? Is it always there too, like this? <!DOCTYPE html> <html> ??

The code that comes after <!DOCTYPE html>