The <HTML> tag defines the start and end of an entire web document. The <HTML> must be the first thing in a document and the </HTML> must be the last. Note that Internet Explorer will allow text and tags before <HTML> and after </HTML>, but this is not compatible with Netscape and other browsers.
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Indicates the language of the HTML document. |
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| lang="lang" | |
Indicates the language of the HTML document. |
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This is about as small of an HTML document as you can get. As you can see, then <HTML> and </HTML> tags surround everything else within the document.
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