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html5 doctype

HTML5 – Head Section

November 10, 2012

And in the beginning, there was the doctype. The doctype is a required part of a properly coded HTML page. Before HTML5, we had several options. There was HTML vs. XHTML, strict, lose, or transitional, and the proper doctype was a pretty long and ugly piece of characters – for example:

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