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1 Answer
Jan Oberreiter
78,020 PointsWhen performing HTML validation testing on a web page it tells the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) validator which version of (X)HTML standard the web page coding is supposed to comply with. When you validate your web page the HTML validator checks the coding against the applicable standard then reports which portions of the coding do not pass HTML validation (are not compliant). It tells the browser how to render the page in standards compliant mode.
... and the exclamation mark itself is just something, that the w3c specified as something, that has to be in the declaration for HTML 5 documents ... and as far as I know, there is no "special meaning" behind the exclamation mark itself ... if that was your question ...
Hope this helps ... regards ... Jan.
Valeriia O
Courses Plus Student 17,625 PointsValeriia O
Courses Plus Student 17,625 PointsThe '<!DOCTYPE>' declaration (Document Type Declaration or DTD) specifies the rules for the markup language so that the browsers render the content correctly.
It must always be the first thing in an HTML document, as it tells the web browser about what version of the markup language the page is written in.
Hope this helps!