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The Doctype Element

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All HTML documents must adhere to the same basic structure. There are some variations between the different versions of HTML, which are described below.

==Basic Structure==

The basic structure of any HTML document, whether [[HTML4]], [[HTML5]], or [[XHTML]], is the same:

<pre>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Document Title</title>
</head>
<body>
...[page content]...
</body>
</html>
</pre>

==Differences Between HTML Versions==

===The Doctype Element===
All HTML pages should have a <code><doctype></code> declaration that informs the browser which version of HTML the page is written in. See [[Doctype]] for a more information, as well as a list of available doctypes.

===The HTML Element===
For HTML4 and HTML5 documents, this is simply <code><html lang="en"></code>. For more information, see [[Language Codes]].

===The Character Encoding Element===
This is the <code>charset</code> meta element. An HTML4 document doesn't have the trailing slash, whereas an HTML5 document may or may not have the trailing slash. It's preferable to put it before the <code>title</code> element.

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+All HTML pages should have a <code><doctype></code> declaration that informs the browser which version of HTML the page is written in. See [[Doctype | doctype]] for more information, as well as a list of available doctypes.
 ===The HTML Element===

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