HTML Tag - <html>

This lesson discusses the HTML <html> tag and its usage in web development.

This tag specifies that the webpage is written in HTML. It appears at the very first and last line of the webpage. It is mainly used to show that the page uses HTML5 – the latest version of the language. Also known as the root element, this tag can be thought of as a parent tag for every other tag used in the page.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <!-- Content goes here -->
</html>

The above code shows an example of the <html> tag. Here, the lang attribute specifies the language of the document, which is English in this case.