diff --git a/maud/src/lib.rs b/maud/src/lib.rs
index 23223c5..873e8ca 100644
--- a/maud/src/lib.rs
+++ b/maud/src/lib.rs
@@ -189,6 +189,30 @@ impl<'a> fmt::Write for Escaper<'a> {
}
}
+/// The literal string `<!DOCTYPE html>`.
+///
+/// # Example
+///
+/// A minimal web page:
+///
+/// ```rust,ignore
+/// use maud::DOCTYPE;
+///
+/// let markup = html! {
+/// (DOCTYPE)
+/// html {
+/// head {
+/// meta charset="utf-8" /
+/// title "Test page"
+/// }
+/// body {
+/// p "Hello, world!"
+/// }
+/// }
+/// };
+/// ```
+pub const DOCTYPE: PreEscaped<&'static str> = PreEscaped("<!DOCTYPE html>");
+
#[cfg(feature = "iron")]
mod iron_support {
use std::io;