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3. HEAD
The HEAD contains general information about the document.
The contents of the HEAD are not displayed as part of the document
text: the displayed material is found within the
BODY. Consequently, only certain mark-up
elements can be placed within the HEAD. These are:
- TITLE The title of the document
- ISINDEX Usually placed in the
HEAD by the server or a server script/program to indicate that a
document is searchable.
- NEXTID A parameter used by automated
HTML editors to create unique identifiers for the documents.
- LINK Defines the relationship(s) between
this document and another or others. A document can have several LINK
elements.
- BASE A record of the original URL of the
document: this allows you to move the document to a new directory (or
even a new site) and have relative URLs access the appropriate place
with respect to the original URL.
At present the TITLE element is the only one being extensively used.
This is sure to change.
Example of Use
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Goofy Stuff Index Page </TITLE>
<NEXTID N=z33>
<BASE HREF="http://www.somewhere.org/stuff/blob.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
..... text of the document
</BODY>
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