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HTML title tag

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Description

The HTML title tag is an important part of a document. Titles must describe the document's content as accurate as possible, but not being too long. Titles are defined in the head of the document.

Example:

Code begin
<head>
<title>The impact of drugs in modern society</title>
</head>
<body>
...A lot of writing about drugs and modern society...
</body>Code end

Attributes

lang (langcode)

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 p&aacute;rrafo en espa&ntilde;ol.</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

Events

There are no events defined for this tag.

See complete list and information about events in HTML

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