What does DOCTYPE mean?

[neharani]

The term DOCTYPE tells the browser which type of HTML is used on a webpage. In turn, the browsers use DOCTYPE to determine how to render a page. Failing to use DOCTYPE or using a wrong DOCTYPE may load your page in Quirks Mode.

[neharani]

DOCTYPE, is an instruction that ***ociates a particular SGML or XML document (for example, a webpage) with a document type definition (DTD) (for example, the formal definition of a particular version of HTML).

[stevex]

DOCTYPE stands for Document Type declaration. The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is not an HTML tag, it is an instruction to the web browser about what version of HTML the page is written in.

[sonia sharma]

The DOCTYPE tells the web browsers what type of document the file is. This is the method that Google uses, and is reasonably easy to remember.

[premdayalmca]

if you start a html code to design a web page. Doctype is important.

[Priyanka]

DOCTYPE is a Document Type Declaration and it is used for ***ociates a particular SGML or XML document.

[Guest]

The DOCTYPE declaration is a top-level tag-like reference known as a Public Text Identifier. It should appear at the very beginning of an HTML/XHTML document in order to identify the content of the document as conforming to a particular HTML DTD specification. Historically, including a DTD was not required by browsers; they just interpreted a document according to what elements and attributes it understood.

[sangeetanegi]

The term DOCTYPE tells the browser which type of HTML used on a webpage.

[Daljeet]

DOCTYPE is used for ociates a particular SGML or XML document.