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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Michelle Mangwiro
Michelle Mangwiro
Courses Plus Student 467 Points

Body elements in html

I don't understand where I am going wrong. Please can you help.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head></head>
<html></html>
<body></body>

5 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Michelle,

You nearly have it. Looks to just be order. Try this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head></head>
    <body></body>
</html>

Does this help?

-Rich

lucybeck
lucybeck
6,055 Points
lucybeck
lucybeck
6,055 Points

Hi Michelle, Think of the code as a living thing: Whole thing : html , top: head /head , middle: body /body , end whole thing: /html

(html comes before head) :-)

Michelle Mangwiro
PLUS
Michelle Mangwiro
Courses Plus Student 467 Points
Michelle Mangwiro
Michelle Mangwiro
Courses Plus Student 467 Points

Thank you

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

No problem :)

-Rich

Simon Duchaine
Simon Duchaine
14,441 Points
Simon Duchaine
Simon Duchaine
14,441 Points

Your <html></html> tags need to be before your <head> and your <head> and <body> tags need to be included between your opening and closing <html> tags.

lucybeck
lucybeck
6,055 Points
lucybeck
lucybeck
6,055 Points

ht, he, bo

:-)