January 09, 2012

A Look At Web Programming: Part 5



DOCTYPEs


The first tag in our Hello World example is the DOCTYPE tag, which stands for the Document Type Declaration.  The DOCTYPE declaration does a couple of things, but the most important is that it tells the browser how to render the page.  In this case, we used <!DOCTYPE html> since we will be using HTML 5 in later sections.  Other DOCTYPES include:

HTML 4.01 Strict:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">


XHTML 1.0 Strict:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">


XHTML 1.1 Basic:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd">


Just to name a few.  For even more DOCTYPEs, a simple web search will yield most of the supported Document Type Declarations.

The HEAD Tag

The <head> tag is a container for elements that won't display on web pages, but contain useful information.  The <head> tag is only valid within the HTML Element ("<html>").
Within the HEAD element, we can specify the title of the web page.  In our Hello World example, we set the title to "Hello World!" using the line:

<title>Hello World!</title>


The TITLE element is only valid within the HEAD element.  There is other valuable information we can put inside the HEAD tag, which we will learn in later sections.

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