Author: Michal Szymanski
The HTML <head> Element
The <head> element is a container for metadata (data
about data) and is placed between the <html> tag and the <body>
tag.
HTML metadata is data about the HTML document. Metadata is not displayed.
Metadata typically define the document title, character set, styles, links, scripts, and other meta information.
The following tags describe metadata: <title>, <style>,
<meta>, <link>, <script>,
and <base>.
The HTML <title> Element
The <title> element defines the title of the document,
and is required in all HTML/XHTML documents.
The <title> element:
- defines a title in the browser tab
- provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites
- displays a title for the page in search engine results
A simple HTML document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
The content of the document......
</body>
</html>
The HTML <style> Element
<style>
body {background-color: powderblue;}
h1 {color: red;}
p {color: blue;}
</style>
The HTML <link> Element
The <link> element is used to link to external style sheets:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css">
The HTML <meta> Element
The <meta> element is used to specify which character set
is used, page description,
author, and other metadata.
Metadata is used by browsers (how to display content), search engines and other web services.
Define a description of your web page:
<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials">
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