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What does DOCTYPE HTML mean?

20th Jun 2020, 8:00 AM
Adityasricharan Illindala
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It is an instruction telling the browser what document type to expect. You might be seen <!DOCTYPE html> being used. It is used for the declaration of html5.
20th Jun 2020, 8:23 AM
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It tells the browser the type of document it's about to render.
20th Jun 2020, 8:08 AM
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