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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Napoleon Carbajal
Napoleon Carbajal
196 Points

how do i Create the HTML element that will serve as the document root?

please help me!!!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<body><body>
Jesper Kristensen
Jesper Kristensen
10,111 Points
Jesper Kristensen
Jesper Kristensen
10,111 Points

Save this document as index.htm or index.html depending on server software. Taken from this source http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_intro.asp

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
Content of the document......
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Your document root is your html tag. It starts immediately after the doctype declaration.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
</html>