No </HEAD> tag?

cj550 · May 11, 2007

I had a site designed recently, since then I have been learning html- I looked at part of the code for my index page and there doesnt seem to be a </HEAD> tag present, could you look at the following code and tell me if i need to add the </HEAD> tag and if so where?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>

<TITLE>Onbike Scotland | Best biking roads in Scotland | DVD footage</TITLE>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" content="INDEX,FOLLOW">
<meta name="Keywords"content="Biking Scotland, Scottish roads, Scottish Biking, A82, A87, A887, A890, A896, A832, A816, A939, A826, A827, Northern Scotland, Central Scotland, Southern Scotland">
<meta name="Description" content="DVD footage of the roads in Scotland. Excellent for biking.">
<meta name="Publisher" content="www.designit.com">
<META name="verify-v1" content="fI4fPRdLazADbRh5GKQ5tbg14ydePmddP1nCuY/ZMcI=" />
<meta name="Author" content="netspace">
<meta name="Revisit-after" content="5 days">
<meta name="Classification" content="non-profit">
<meta name="Distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="Rating" content="Safe for Kids">
<meta name="Copyright" content="ICRfm">
<meta name="Language" content="en-uk">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/Favicon.ico">
<script language="javascript">
window.status="Designed & Produced by Netspace Copyright 2006";
</script>
<style type="text/css">

thanks

-NC- · May 11, 2007

You need to add the </HEAD> tag directly before the <BODY> tag.

croatiankid · May 11, 2007

Actually, you don't need a <html>,</html>,<head>,</head>,<body> or </body> tag at all.

-NC- · May 11, 2007

You do if you want your HTML to be valid.

http://validator.w3.org/

croatiankid · May 11, 2007

No you don't.
html specs
sample url with no /html, head, /head, body and /body (html for its lang attribute)

-NC- · May 11, 2007

Interesting... ...your site does have an <html> tag though, would it really still validate without it?

I stand corrected!

croatiankid · May 11, 2007

Yeah, I use the start HTML tag for accessibility (setting the language of the page). It's an interesting thing that a LOT of people don't know

john's TLD Domain · May 15, 2007

I wonder if the search engines will be able to tell and if they will take point away if you don't have them. I guess a good question is if you don't include them will all your browsers still work properly? if anybody knows that question it would be helpful!

Horranus · May 15, 2007

First off, tags should be in lowercase, fyi

As for your question, the </head> comes right before <body>

bbrian017 · May 16, 2007

RCRiver said:
You do if you want your HTML to be valid.

http://validator.w3.org/

Cool link thanks

I'm soooo not valid

croatiankid · May 17, 2007

SE won't do anything, on the contrary, they might reward you for a smaller code size.
And browsers work properly since they automatically insert the head, html and body elements, it's in the specs, and because they insert the elements (not the tags), you can still style them with CSS, JS etc

No </HEAD> tag?

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