Comments on: From the Top: The Head Element http://www.thatstandardsguy.co.uk/2006/01/head-element/ a web developer with standards Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:42:21 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gez http://www.thatstandardsguy.co.uk/2006/01/head-element/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Gez Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:29:05 +0000 http://www.thatstandardsguy.co.uk/2006/01/30/from-the-top-the-head-element/#comment-71 <blockquote> If a web designer doesn’t include the head element, then that means they’re not including the title element. </blockquote> The author isn't able to exclude the head element with HTML. It's there, it's just the tags are optional. The title attribute is only valid in the head of the document, so providing the title element is used before content for the body (along with other elements that can go in the head like link, script, meta, etc), the head element will contain the title element. See <a href="http://juicystudio.com/experiments/minimal.html" rel="nofollow">example of a document without head tags</a>. The document contains some scripting to show what's included in the head and the body (obvisously, requires scripting to be enabled to see the results).

If a web designer doesn’t include the head element, then that means they’re not including the title element.

The author isn’t able to exclude the head element with HTML. It’s there, it’s just the tags are optional. The title attribute is only valid in the head of the document, so providing the title element is used before content for the body (along with other elements that can go in the head like link, script, meta, etc), the head element will contain the title element. See example of a document without head tags. The document contains some scripting to show what’s included in the head and the body (obvisously, requires scripting to be enabled to see the results).

]]> By: Jon Henshaw http://www.thatstandardsguy.co.uk/2006/01/head-element/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Jon Henshaw Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:33:29 +0000 http://www.thatstandardsguy.co.uk/2006/01/30/from-the-top-the-head-element/#comment-68 If a web designer doesn't include the <em>head</em> element, then that means they're not including the <em>title</em> element. Search engines, like Google, still use the <em>title</em> element on both search results (which help user know what the page is about) and in their algorithm. Not using it means throwing out an important component to driving traffic to your website. If a web designer doesn’t include the head element, then that means they’re not including the title element. Search engines, like Google, still use the title element on both search results (which help user know what the page is about) and in their algorithm. Not using it means throwing out an important component to driving traffic to your website.

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