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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Kevin Portell
Kevin Portell
Courses Plus Student 1,202 Points

Can't get past.

For the question "Set the character set for the page", I have tried:

<meta> 
<meta /> 
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta></meta> 
<meta charset="utf-8"></meta>

and nothing is working. I don't know if this is a glitch or maybe I am making this too complex for what it is asking for.

2 Answers

Kevin Kenger
Kevin Kenger
32,834 Points
Kevin Kenger
Kevin Kenger
32,834 Points

Hey Kevin,

Cool name by the way! I can't see your code, so I'm not exactly sure what you tried (you should check out this post for tips on how to post code), but in order to set the character set, you need to put a line of code that looks like

<meta charset="utf-8">

between your <head></head> tags.

Kevin Portell
PLUS
Kevin Portell
Courses Plus Student 1,202 Points
Kevin Portell
Kevin Portell
Courses Plus Student 1,202 Points

Yeah, I did that. It was just a glitch. I re loaded the page and passed through it with ease.