--- title: DTD slug: Glossary/DTD translation_of: Glossary/Doctype translation_of_original: Glossary/DTD ---

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<!DOCTYPE> informs the browser which version of HTML (or XML) you used to write the document. Doctype is a declaration, not a tag; you can also refer to it as "document type declaration", or "DTD" for short.