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Using the New, Simpler DOCTYPE in HTML 5

The DOCTYPE is now easier to use
By Matthew David
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September 14, 2009 04:15 AM EDT
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HTML 5 is making some things easier to use. The first is the DOCTYPE. Located at the top of a Web page before the opening BODY tag, the DOCTYPE describes the syntax for the page. The roots for the DOCTYPE lie in SGML. Bearing this in mind, all DOCTYPES for HTML 4 and XHTML require a DTD (Document Type Definition) to describe the content. This is all gone in HTML 5. Now, all you have to do to declare that you are using HTML 5 as your DOCTYPE is add the following to the root of your Web page:

<!doctype html>

That's it. Easy, huh?

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