Is it proper to place code, or content between the HTML </head> and <body> tags

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Question

Is it okay to place HTML code between the ending of the head area and before the beginning of the body area. I have done this before, on various sites without any problems, however, I would like to know whether this has any backwards compatibility issues, and also whether this is common, or good practice. For example:

</head>

   <div id="header">

       <h1>Heading</h1>

       Code & Content...

   </div><!-- #header -->

 <body>

    Code & Content...

 </body>
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Solution

No, is not okay. All the content of the page should go inside <body>. Check the HTML specification. Browsers are really forgiving, but even if it works you shouldn't do it.

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