Current Assignment(s)

P1: The Live Site
Due: Recommended by Monday, 5.21

The Head Element

<head>...</head>

The head element is a container for processing information and document metadata. This will include elements that may link to other files, hold the author information, and pass the name of the page to the processor. The head contains high-level information about the site, and always comes first within the root element.

In many aspects, the contents are not visible to site visitors. Rather, the head contains information for indexing the site, like for search results. Certain elements in the head can also help dictate how the page will visibly look. In this sense, we can consider the head to contain the thoughts of the page.

HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <!-- Meta data and information about your site, not visible to visitors. -->
  </head>

</html>

<title>...</title>

The title tag is the only required element within the head, and aptly contains your site’s or page’s title.

HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My Way-Cool Awesome Site</title>
    <!-- Meta data and information about your site, not visible to visitors. -->
  </head>

</html>