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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Chetan Sisodiya
Chetan Sisodiya
938 Points
Posted by Chetan Sisodiya
Chetan Sisodiya
938 Points

charset for the page

Why adding charset like this causing error. Not able to clear the question

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>

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

  <body>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Apparently HTML doesn't except even a mere little tiny space between the equal sign = and the string "utf-8".

I guess HTML is very picky on spaces...

<meta charset= "utf-8">    <!-- HTML doesn't like this for some reason... -->

<meta charset="urf-8">    <!-- Apparently HTML accepts this. -->

I hope this helps. ~Alex