<head>: The Document Metadata (Header) element

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The<head>HTML element contains machine-readable information (metadata) about the document, like itstitle,scripts, andstyle sheets. There can be only one<head> element in an HTML document.

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

Attributes

This element includes theglobal attributes.

profileDeprecated: TheURIs of one or more metadata profiles, separated bywhite space.

Examples

html

<!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`<iframe>srcdoc` 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`<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.
Implicit ARIA role	No corresponding role
Permitted ARIA roles	No`role` permitted
DOM interface	`HTMLHeadElement`