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---
title: '<head>: The Document Metadata (Header) element'
slug: Web/HTML/Element/head
page-type: html-element
browser-compat: html.elements.head
---

{{HTMLSidebar}}

The <head> HTML element contains machine-readable information ({{glossary("metadata")}}) about the document, like its title, scripts, and style sheets.

Note: <head> primarily holds information for machine processing, not human-readability. For human-visible information, like top-level headings and listed authors, see the {{HTMLElement("header")}} element.

Attributes

This element includes the global attributes.

  • profile {{deprecated_inline}} {{Non-standard_Inline}}

    • : The {{glossary("URI")}}s of one or more metadata profiles, separated by {{Glossary("whitespace", "white space")}}.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Document title</title>
  </head>
</html>

Technical summary

Content categories None.
Permitted content

If the document is an {{HTMLElement("iframe")}} {{htmlattrxref("srcdoc", "iframe")}} document, or if title information is available from a higher level protocol (like the subject line in HTML email), zero or more elements of metadata content.

Otherwise, one or more elements of metadata content where exactly one is a {{HTMLElement("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 {{HTMLElement("html")}} element, as its first child.
Implicit ARIA role No corresponding role
Permitted ARIA roles No role permitted
DOM interface {{domxref("HTMLHeadElement")}}

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

  • Elements that can be used inside the <head>:

    • {{HTMLElement("title")}}

    • {{HTMLElement("base")}}

    • {{HTMLElement("link")}}

    • {{HTMLElement("style")}}

    • {{HTMLElement("meta")}}

    • {{HTMLElement("script")}}

    • {{HTMLElement("noscript")}}

    • {{HTMLElement("template")}}