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.
Content categories | None. |
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Permitted content | If the document is an Otherwise, one or more elements of metadata content where exactly one is a |
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 |