What is the HTML head?

To learn about the HTML head, its purpose, the most important items it can contain, and what effect it can have on the HTML document.

The HTML head is the contents of the <head> element unlike the contents of the <body> element. Which are displayed on the page when loaded in a browser, the head’s content is not displayed on the page. Instead, the head’s job is to contain metadata about the document.

The <title> element is metadata that represents the title of the overall HTML document, not the document’s content. Metadata is data that describes data, and HTML has an “official way of adding metadata to a document the <meta> element. <meta charset=”utf-8”> This element specifies the document’s character encoding, the character set that the document is permitted to use. “utf=8”, is a universal character set that includes pretty much any character from any human language. This means that your web page will be able to handle displaying any language

A Return to Some HTML Basics

Diving back into HTML after a break proves to sometimes be challenging, with forgotten information or improperly used tags. However, revisiting some of the key basic information has helped me tremendously and it proves that it’s always a smart idea to revisit the basics.

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