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Doctype html

What does doctypehtml mean?

29th Sep 2018, 7:22 PM
Fayez Uddin Mallick
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It just means that the document is an html document. Most browsers will recognize an html document by default even if you exclude the doctype. Some, however, won't and the document will be displayed as plain text.
29th Sep 2018, 7:41 PM
Division by Zero
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It means Browser: When you see this, read it as you would any other document that follows the HTML5 living standard. https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp Many prior posts on this. One example: https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/1243086/?ref=app
29th Sep 2018, 7:43 PM
Janningā­
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