Title: header.php
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# header.php

 *  [swaraaj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swaraaj/)
 * (@swaraaj)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/headerphp-8/)
 * I am not able to under stand why double “<<” sign used in header.php file n what
   this mean.
    code from the header.php is mentioned
 * <?php $heading_tag = ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) ? ‘h1’ : ‘div’; ?>
    <<?
   php echo $heading_tag; ?> id=”site-title”> <span> ” title=”<?php echo esc_attr(
   get_bloginfo( ‘name’, ‘display’ ) ); ?>” rel=”home”><?php bloginfo( ‘name’ );?
   > </span> </<?php echo $heading_tag; ?>>

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/headerphp-8/#post-2160467)
 *     ```
       <<?php echo $heading_tag; ?> id="site-title">
       ```
   
 * this is an opening chevron `<` for a html tag, followed by a opening php tag `
   <?php` which adds a dynamic html tag – `h1` for the front/home page, or `div`
   for any other page, resp.
 * when the php code is rendered:
 *     ```
       <?php echo $heading_tag; ?>
       ```
   
 * this transforms into:
    on the front page:
 *     ```
       <h1 id="site-title">
       ```
   
 * on other pages:
 *     ```
       <div id="site-title">
       ```
   
 * ———
    similar with the >> at the end, in here:
 *     ```
       </<?php echo $heading_tag; ?>>
       ```
   
 * it is a closing html tag `</???>` with a php code inside;
    the php part is:
 *     ```
       <?php echo $heading_tag; ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [swaraaj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swaraaj/)
 * (@swaraaj)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/headerphp-8/#post-2160799)
 * [@alchymyth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/): Thnx for ur valuable
   rply. this solved my problem and understanding.

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 * Last reply from: [swaraaj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swaraaj/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/headerphp-8/#post-2160799)
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