Hypertext Markup Language
html
The html element is the outermost envelope for the composition. It is often called the root element because HTML uses a hierarchical structure.
The html element comprises exactly two descendant elements: the head element which describes the document, and the body element which contains the composition itself.
Properties
- lang
- The natural human language of the document's written composition.
- Use BCP 47 for guidance on how to code this, for example:
en
for Englishde-AT
for German as used in Austriasr-Latn-RS
for Serbian written in Latin script as used in Serbia
Example
Descendants
- head
- The head element comprises subordinate elements for the purpose of describing the document, its context, and its dependencies.
- body
- The body element comprises all of the elements that control the layout and structure of a document, plus all of their subordinates.