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The <noscript> HTML element defines a section of HTML to be inserted if a script type on the page is unsupported or if scripting is currently turned off in the browser.
This element only includes the global attributes.
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The <noscript> element represents its children differently depending on if scripting is enabled:
| Metadata content, flow content, phrasing content. |
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When scripting is disabled and when it is a descendant of the
<head> element: in any order, zero or more
<link> elements, zero or more
<style> elements, and zero or more
<meta> elements. When scripting is disabled and when it isn't a descendant of the <head> element: any transparent content, but no <noscript> element must be among its descendants. Otherwise: flow content or phrasing content. |
| None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory. |
| Any element that accepts phrasing content, if there are no ancestor <noscript> element, or in a <head> element (but only for an HTML document), here again if there are no ancestor <noscript> element. |
| No corresponding role |
| No role permitted |
| HTMLElement |
| HTML # the-noscript-element |
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