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What declaration should all HTML files start with and what is the uses of it ?

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15th Nov 2018, 4:22 PM

Ratnapal Shende

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<!DOCTYPE HTML>

15th Nov 2018, 5:51 PM

Roneel

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-;# <!DOCTYPE HTML> This declares this is a html file .. For different version you need to add some documentation of version's <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> But in this version html5 not necessary to add documentation... Browser already supports this is html documentation .

17th Nov 2018, 1:14 AM

mitthu0x01

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This is what I have understood: This is declaration for HTML 5. For other version, it was pretty long and not necessary. It informs browser that doctype is HTML. And you need detailed explanation - wait for a moment. edit: see here https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp https://stackoverflow.com/questions/414891/what-is-doctype

15th Nov 2018, 6:04 PM

Roneel

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you can use <meta> they are used for many things search you can search it online

16th Nov 2018, 9:26 AM

Raz Shneider

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<html> This is also an alternative It shows that the type is of a HTML Language.

16th Nov 2018, 3:35 PM

Stephen

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<!DOCTYPE html> That's the declaration to use. It is a command telling the system that this code is html 5 or html 4 (the version). It is important to use it

16th Nov 2018, 4:17 PM

Ubong Umoh

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In short, it defines the code.

16th Nov 2018, 4:19 PM

Stephen

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<! DOCTYPE HTML>

17th Nov 2018, 4:56 PM

Rachit Sharma

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Also add the meta charset as high as possible in your html page, since most browsers used to re-proces the whole page once they read the charset. Meaning everything read before could be thrown away in case it was read in the wrong charset.

19th Nov 2018, 11:48 AM

Koen Rockstars