Head

The HTML element contains the page's title and description, and some optional scripts and styles. It is usually placed right after the opening tag and right before the opening  tag. is always inserted first within the head. To apply CSS directly into an HTML document, you must insert the code in the section (or at the very beginning of the ) for it to work.

HTML 4 attributes
Internationalization attributes lang and dir.

HTML5 attributes

 * Global HTML Attributes

Usage
To apply this is an HTML document, use:

To use internal CSS in the  tag, use:

Rendering
The element defines document properties, and is by itself not visible.

Typical CSS representation:

Coding rules
The element is the first child element of the  element. It must contain a element, can contain an  and an  element, and can contain several, , ,  and  elements.