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Can anyone tell, why ! Is used in front of DOCTYPE HTML?What Is the purpose of ! Over there?
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It prevents doctype from being read as an element but as a declaration
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It declares the doctype
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/html-doctypes/
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp
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https://teamtreehouse.com/community/what-is-the-bang-for-at-the-beginning-of-the-html-5-doctype
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To make the browser know that the website is made by an html code language
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it is simply part of the syntax. it is defined this way.
<!DOCTYPE html>
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This is read already but the thing doctype specifies document type right then why we are writing ! Symbol ?? It should also have some meaning right?
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Thank you
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It fulfils the usefulness of the DOCTYPE HTML ,because doctype is declaration for any code
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It declares it as a doctype and not an element of the actual code
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It is decleartion of html 5. and simple syntax of html 5.another html versions so long sentences nd any more
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It tells the version of html
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Why it is neccessary??
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Thank you
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Thank you Tamim Moh'd
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