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Understand the head code

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Understand the head code

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- All right so we just put our content from CodePen into a brand new fresh HTML document. And I said this was so that you can see what's going on in the head of the document. So I wanted to talk through now what actually goes in the head of the document. What are all these lines of code that we have here. So, first of all, in the very first line of code here in Line one. This is a doc type declaration. When you see a doc type that looks like this, this indicates that this document is written with HTML5. As you can tell from the number, there have been other versions of HTML. There's been an HTML 4, and an HTML 3, and so forth. An HTML 5 is pretty much what everybody is using these days. It's been out about 10 years now. But you may occasionally see a different a doc type at the top of the document. Make sure this goes here that tells the browser exactly how to render your code. The second line, line 2, is the start of our HTML document and so it starts here with HTML. And if you…

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