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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by abdiwahab abdullah
abdiwahab abdullah
248 Points

character set for the page

how do you set character for the page i need a quick answer please

index.html 
<html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
  < meta charset = " utf -8"
        <title> Abdiwahab | footballer </title>
 </head>  
<body>
  <header>
    <h1> Abdiwahab</h1>
    <h2> Professional Footballer</h2>
    <section>
      <p> Gallery will be here.</p>
    </section>
  </header>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Kristin Sangurima
Kristin Sangurima
8,997 Points
Kristin Sangurima
Kristin Sangurima
8,997 Points

Should look like: meta charset="UTF-8" just remember to close the tag, if I do it in my answer it won't appear

richardwheeler
richardwheeler
8,332 Points
richardwheeler
richardwheeler
8,332 Points

like Kristin said close the tag Also get rid of the spaces. here's the code

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