<!DOCTYPE>

Defines the document type which is really the specific kind of markup used to build the web page. This should be placed at the top of the page before any HTML tags occur.

Example

<DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN>

Compatibility

HTML 4.01

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