<html> Description:
The <html></html> element contains all of the XHTML of the document.
<html> Web Browser Support:
- Netscape 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
- Mozilla 1
- Firefox 1
- Internet Explorer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Opera 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Safari 1
- WebTV / MSNTV
- AvantGo Palm OS
- AvantGo Windows CE
- HTML 3.2, 4.0
- XHTML 1.0: XHTML Structure Module
<html> Attributes:
<html> End Tag:
</html> REQUIRED<html> Contents:
The entire XHTML document. The following tags are valid within the <html> tag:
body, head, frameset
<html> Valid Context:
The <html> tag is valid within the following tags:
None
<html> Usage:
- Basic page
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
contents of page
</body>
</html>
<html> Special Notes:
- While it is technically valid to leave out the tags, it is not a good idea as browsers get confused and without a container element, your XHTML document will be invalid.

