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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Beth Barrett
Beth Barrett
1,412 Points
Posted by Beth Barrett
Beth Barrett
1,412 Points

Adding a charset attribute, why this isn't working:

Set the character set for the attribute...not sure why this isn't working. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset = "utf-8"> </head> <body> </body> </html>

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <head>
   <meta charset = "utf-8">
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Beth,

You are close, but you can't have any spaces before or after the equal sign.

<meta charset="utf-8">

Keep Coding! :)

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points
rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

Welcome to Treehouse!

You've gotta' be careful with white space in computer languages. When setting your charset, you need to not have any space within the assignment. Other than that, you code looks good, nice job!

<meta charset="utf-8">
Beth Barrett
Beth Barrett
1,412 Points
Beth Barrett
Beth Barrett
1,412 Points

That's one I'll never forget (blush). Thank you !

Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Happy to help.

That's one that catches me more than a few times too. Especially if you're bouncing between a couple programming languages. JavaScript doesn't really care about whitespace... but HTML and CSS...

I hope you enjoy your experience and learning here on Treehouse. :)