The HTML tag is an essential part of the classic HTML structure. Like many of the the tags we've discussed before, it wraps around content. The content in this case happens to be the whole HTML document lol! It is the first tag we write in our HTML document, and is the parent of all the elements inside.  the !DOCTYPE html tag is important to add so that the browser can detect what kind of file is being used.

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