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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Jason Brown
Jason Brown
284 Points

Character set tag

I can remember what goes between meta and charset?

3 Answers

Richmond Lauman
Richmond Lauman
28,793 Points
Richmond Lauman
Richmond Lauman
28,793 Points

charset is an attribute and not a tag, so I am unsure what you are asking. Are you referring to a meta tag with a charset attribute like the one below?

<meta charset="UTF-8">
Jason Brown
Jason Brown
284 Points
Jason Brown
Jason Brown
284 Points

That's what I inserted? I must have had a space in the wrong place..Thanks!

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

If you are using this doctype for HTML5

<!DOCTYPE html>

Then use this meta element

<meta charset="utf-8">

If you are using the doctype for HTML4

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Then use this meta element:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">