TECHiE TALKS

HTML files consist of ordinary text with the addition of what are called tags. Tags, which represent the markup of the text, are special codes surrounded by pointy brackets. Most of the tags come in pairs and specify what is to be done with what is in between the starting and the ending tag. For [...]

Declare a DOCTYPE. The DOCTYPE goes before the opening html tag at the top of the page and tells the browser whether the page contains HTML, XHTML, or a mix of both, so that it can correctly interpret the markup. There are three main DOCTYPEs that let the browser know what kind of markup it [...]