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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Tim Gorman
Tim Gorman
154 Points

What is the document root ?

How do I define the document root ?

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

2 Answers

The document root is the starting html /html tags that the whole document is inside.

<html>
</html>
Tim Gorman
Tim Gorman
154 Points

Thanks Clayton. I keep forgetting the back end of the html. Nice to connect with you here. Cheers, Tim