HTML and CSS Reference
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Additional Head Tags
One of the most important elements that is used in the head section of an HTML document
is the <title> element. It is used to give your document a title, and this title is visible in the
title bar of the web browser window or the browser tab of the viewed page. Additionally, the
document title is the default name associated with the page when a user bookmarks the page
via a browser or a third-party app. Finally, the title is also commonly used as the headline in
search results from search engines like Google, directly affecting web page rankings.
The <title> element is required in every HTML document, cannot be used more than once,
and cannot contain any additional tags or formatting rules.
Another popular HTML element in the head section of a web page is the <meta> element.
The <meta> element is used to provide information about the document itself, such as page
description, keywords, document author and other metadata, through the use of attributes
with name/value pairs. This information is not displayed on the page but is accessible to oth-
er applications like browsers, search engine robots or other web services.
The most common attribute in a <meta> tag is the charset attribute. This attribute specifies
the character encoding for the HTML document, and the most common value is the utf-8
value. This meta information informs the browser that the content inside is encoded using
the Unicode (UTF-8) character set. In turn, this allows the web browser to use the widest
range of character glyphs available, so if the webpage is written in a language that uses a
different script such as Arabic, or Cyrillic for Russian, the actual letters will be available and
displayed on the screen.
Additionally, the <head> section can contain links to stylesheets and JavaScript files through
the <link> tag, or they can be embedded into the document with the <style> tag. Stylesheets
provide information on how the web page should be visually displayed, while scripts
provide different kinds of interactivity and advanced functionalities. Both stylesheets and
scripts are beyond the scope of this topic.
1) Place the cursor between the opening and closing head tags.
2) Type <meta charset=”utf-8” />
3) Type <title>.
4) Enter the title of our web page (ex. Curriculum Vitae).
5) Type </title>.
 
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