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<head>: The Document Metadata (Header) element

The <head> HTML element contains machine-readable information (metadata) about the document, like its title, scripts, and style sheets.

Note: <head> primarily holds information for machine processing, not human-readability. For human-visible information, like top-level headings and listed authors, see the <header> element.

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

profile Deprecated Non-standard

The URIs of one or more metadata profiles, separated by white space.

Examples

html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Document title</title>
  </head>
</html>

Technical summary

Content categories None.
Permitted content

If the document is an <iframe> srcdoc document, or if title information is available from a higher level protocol (like the subject line in HTML email), zero or more elements of metadata content.

Otherwise, one or more elements of metadata content where exactly one is a <title> element.

Tag omission The start tag may be omitted if the first thing inside the <head> element is an element.
The end tag may be omitted if the first thing following the <head> element is not a space character or a comment.
Permitted parents An <html> element, as its first child.
Implicit ARIA role No corresponding role
Permitted ARIA roles No role permitted
DOM interface HTMLHeadElement

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
head 1 12 1 Yes 15 1 4.4 18 4 14 1 1.0
profile 1 12 1 Yes 15 1–16.4 4.4 18 4 14 1–16.4 1.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/head