Correct Answer: Doctype tag is not a HTML tag, it is just an instruction that is passed to the web browser to check for the information that is being provided by the markup language in which the page is written Doctype is sometimes referred as Document type definition (DTD) that describes some rules that has to be followed while writing the markup language so to make the web browser understand the language and the content correctly Doctype is very important to be placed in the beginning of the HTML and before the tag to allow easy rendering of the pages that are used