curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/top-learn-html-foundations/637f4e2f72c65bc8e73dfe22.md
The <head> element is where you put important meta-information about your webpages, and stuff required for your webpages to render correctly in the browser. Inside the <head>, you should not use any element that displays content on the webpage.
You should always have the meta tag for the charset encoding of the webpage in the head element: <meta charset="utf-8">.
Setting the encoding is very important because it ensures that the webpage will display special symbols and characters from different languages correctly in the browser.
Another element you should always include in the head of an HTML document is the title element:
<title>My First Webpage</title>
The title element is used to give webpages a human-readable title which is displayed in your webpage’s browser tab.
If you didn’t include a title element, the webpage’s title would default to its file name. In your case that would be index.html, which isn’t very meaningful for users; this would make it very difficult to find your webpage if the user has many browser tabs open.
There are many more elements that can go within the head of an HTML document. However, for now it’s only crucial to know about the two elements you have covered here. You will introduce more elements that go into the head throughout the rest of the curriculum.
Back in index.html file, let’s add a head element with a charset meta element and a title within it. The head element goes within the HTML element and should always be the first element under the opening <html> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>My First Webpage</title>
</head>
</html>
What is the purpose of the head element?
The head element is used to display all elements that are displayed on the webpage.
The head element is used to display important information about your webpage and is used to render web pages correctly with meta elements.
The head element is used to display the header content on top of the webpage.
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