!DOCTYPE

Specifies the HTML standard that should be used for this document.

Platform Support

IENetscapeMozillaOperaSafari
2.0+1.0+1.0+4.0+1.0+

Example

This example shows a !DOCTYPE element for a strict XHTML document:


			<!DOCTYPE "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" >
			

Remarks

<!DOCTYPE /> is actually an XML element. Use this element as the first element in all XHTML documents.

Availability

W3C HTML 4.0

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