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The WWW page is identified by the <html> and </html> tags at the beginning and end of the 'Web page. The page is then divided into two parts, the <head> and the <body>,
The <head> section takes no freeflowing text but does allow other tags, one of which, <title>, is mandatory.
The <head>... </head> section contains information to describe the page to the reader (<title>), to search engines (<meta>), to establish its relationship to other pages (<link>) or to identify external scripting (<script>). It may also contain other information that is not considered part of the document (<base>, <isindex>, <style>, and <nextid>).
This topic is extensively covered in most HTML beginners publications so there are no examples included here.
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| profile= | The profile attribute takes one argument, a "url". This "url" is the location of one or more "meta data profiles" (W3C HTML 4.0). These profiles could (future tense) provide a common search engine interface that could already be known to the browser or cause the browser to do something based on directions in the profile. Possible properties would be "author", "copyright", "keywords" or "date". These could then be filled in by subsequent <meta> declarations.
Example: <HTML> Barring other information, the only explanation at this time is that the profile page would take the meta information and present it to the reader in some common format, i.e. as a sidebar or some similar form that would be dictated by the profile statement. |
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