Head Element

The head tag contains various types of information including:

title of the individul page
information about the language and character set used in the page
information about the content of the page
keywords and desciptions that are used by search engines
information about linked style sheets (if any)
in-page styles (if any)
information about JavaScripts (if any)

The head element of this page, for example, includes the following:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="testing.css" />
<meta name="keywords" content="web development, ENGL 7766, webworkshop, XHTML" />

<title>Heading</title>

</head>