What is the <head> element in HTML?
The <head> element in HTML is a container for the metadata of the HTML document.
<head> element:
<title><style><base><link><meta><script><noscript>
The <title> element must be present underneath the <head> element in order for the webpage to be complete.
Example
Explanation
The HTML document above displays a simple webpage containing a heading and a body. In lines 3-10, you can see the <head> element and the elements inside it describing the metadata of the document.
<title>describes the title of the webpage.<meta>specifies the character set encoding for the HTML document.<style>instructs the styling throughout the webpage.<head>acts as a container that wraps the metadata to better structure the HTML document.
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