HTML html tag
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The
HTML html tag contains all the HTML document, with the exception of the
HTML !DOCTYPE tag, defined at the beginning of the document.
Example:
Code begin
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//
DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
All the HTML document goes here...
</html>
Code end
Specifies the language of an element's content. The default value in "unknown".
When writing
XHTML code the syntax "xml:lang" represents a preferred alternative in XHTML 1.0 and a replacement in XHTML 1.1 (e.g., xml:lang="en").
Example:
Code begin
<p lang="en">This is a paragraph in english.</p>
<p lang="es">Este es un párrafo en español.</p>
Code end
dir
Specifies the text direction of the element's contents and attribute values, as well as tables directionality. It has two possible values that are case insensitive:
- RTL: Right to left.
- LTR: Left to right.
Example:
Code begin
<q lang="he" dir="rtl">...a Hebrew quotation...</q>Code end
Defines the version of the
HTML document. It's been deprecated because of the redundancy produced with the
HTML DOCTYPE tag.
There are no events defined for this tag.
See complete list and information about
events in HTML
