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<h1>HTML - <abbr class=initialism title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> Document</h1>
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<th>Syntax</th>
<td><HTML>...</HTML></td>
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<li class=transitional>VERSION=<var><a href="../values.html#cdata">CDATA</a></var> (<abbr class=initialism title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> version)</li>
<li><a href="../attrs.html#i18n">internationalization attributes</a></li>
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<li>In HTML4.0 <a href="doctype.html#strict">Strict</a><span class=transitional> and <a href="doctype.html#transitional">Transitional</a></span>: <a href="../head/head.html">HEAD</a> followed by <a href="body.html">BODY</a></li>
<li class=frameset>In HTML4.0 <a href="doctype.html#frameset">Frameset</a>: <a href="../head/head.html">HEAD</a> followed by <a href="../frames/frameset.html">FRAMESET</a></li>
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<td>Not applicable--HTML is a top-level element</td>
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<p>The <strong class=html>HTML</strong> element contains the <em><abbr class=initialism title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> document</em>, made up of the <strong class=html><a href="../head/head.html">HEAD</a></strong> followed by the <strong class=html><a href="body.html">BODY</a></strong><span class=frameset>, except in <a href="doctype.html#frameset">Frameset</a> documents where the <strong class=html><a href="../frames/frameset.html">FRAMESET</a></strong> element replaces the <strong class=html>BODY</strong></span>. The start and end tags of the <strong class=html>HTML</strong> element are both optional.</p>
<p>The <strong class=html>LANG</strong> attribute is typically set on the <strong class=html>HTML</strong> element to specify the base language of the document. The language should be specified according to <a href="http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt" title="Tags for the Identification of Languages"><abbr class=initialism title="Request for Comments">RFC</abbr> 1766</a>; examples include <strong class=html>en</strong> for English, <strong class=html>en-US</strong> for American English, and <strong class=html>ja</strong> for Japanese.</p>
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<p>The <a href="../deprecated.html">deprecated</a> <strong class=html>VERSION</strong> attribute specifies the Document Type Definition (<abbr class=initialism>DTD</abbr>) that describes the document. This attribute should not be used since the <a href="doctype.html">DOCTYPE</a> declaration makes it redundant.</p>
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<h2>More Information</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#edef-HTML">HTML in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTML4.0 Recommendation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#html">HTML in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTML3.2 Recommendation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_5.html#SEC5.1">HTML in HTML2.0 Standard</a></li>
<li><a href="../../wilbur/body/html.html">HTML in <abbr class=initialism title="Web Design Group">WDG</abbr> HTML3.2 Reference</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hut.fi/u/jkorpela/HTML3.2/5.29.html">HTML in <cite>Learning HTML3.2 by Examples</cite></a></li>
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