HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
<head>
Function
Defines the document header
Attributes
dir
,
lang
,
profile
</head>
; rarely omitted in HTML
End tag
Contains
head_content
Used in
html_tag
The
<head>
tag may contain a number of other tags that help define
and manage the document's content. These include, in any order of ap-
pearance:
<base>
,
<isindex>
,
<link>
,
<meta>
,
<nextid>
,
<object>
,
<script>
,
<style>
, and
<title>
.
3.7.1.1. The dir and lang attributes
As we discussed in the sections about the
<html>
tag attributes,
dir
and
lang
help extend HTML and XHTML to an international audience. [
The dir
