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<head>

The HTML <head> element provides general information (metadata) about the document, including its title and links to its scripts and style sheets.

Content categories	None.
Permitted content	If the element is an `<iframe>` `srcdoc`, or if title information is available from a higher level protocol, zero or more elements of metadata content. Otherwise, one or more elements of metadata content where exactly one is a `<title>` element.
Tag omission	The start tag may be omitted if the first thing inside the head element is an element. The end tag may be omitted if the first thing following the head element is not a space character or a comment.
Permitted parents	An `<html>` element, as its first child.
Permitted ARIA roles	None
DOM interface	`HTMLHeadElement`

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

profile deleted: The URIs of one or more metadata profiles, separated by white space.

Example

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Document title</title>
  </head>
</html>

Notes

Modern, HTML5-compliant browsers automatically construct a <head> element if the tags are omitted in the markup. This behavior cannot be guaranteed in ancient browsers.

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of '<head>' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change from latest shapshot
HTML5 The definition of '<head>' in that specification.	Recommendation	Obsoleted `profile`
HTML 4.01 Specification The definition of '<head>' in that specification.	Recommendation

Browser compatibility

Feature	Chrome	Edge	Firefox (Gecko)	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari (WebKit)
Basic support	1.0	(Yes)	(Yes)	(Yes)	(Yes)	(Yes)