<head> HTML document metadata (header) elementThe <head> HTML element contains machine-readable information (metadata) about the document, like its title, scripts, and style sheets. There can be only one <head> element in an HTML document.
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.
This element includes the global attributes.
profile The URIs of one or more metadata profiles, separated by white space.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<title>Document title</title>
</head>
</html>| Content categories | None. |
|---|---|
| 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 |
<head>: