What is the new Doctype ?
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What is the new Doctype ?
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What does <!DOCTYPE …> HTML Tag do?
The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration is used to inform a website visitor's browser that the document being rendered is an HTML document. While not actually an HTML element itself, every HTML document should being with a DOCTYPE declaration to be compliant with HTML standards.
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When we write our HTML document, the first thing we have to write is the doctype . The doctype is the document type declaration . In other words, the doctype helps us to indicate that our document is written following the structure determined by a specific DTD.
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The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is not an HTML tag; it is an instruction to the web browser about what version of HTML the page is written in. In HTML 4.01, the <!DOCTYPE> declaration refers to a DTD, because HTML 4.01 was based on SGML.
Basically, the DOCTYPE describes the HTML that will be used in your page.
Browsers also use the DOCTYPE to determine how to render a page. Not including a DOCTYPE or including an incorrect DOCTYPE can trigger quirks mode.