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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Steven Dykstra
Steven Dykstra
179 Points
Posted by Steven Dykstra
Steven Dykstra
179 Points

charset syntax - does Workspaces provide examples?

Exercise is asking me to identify the character set so I typed in:

<meta charset = "utf-8">

which is wrong I guess.

Two questions:

What is wrong?

Is there a way to look up the syntax in Workspaces or somewhere else?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset = "utf-8">
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

William Li
PLUS
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

umm... this question has come up alot lately.

<meta charset="utf-8">

No space in between attribute assignment .

Steven Dykstra
Steven Dykstra
179 Points
Steven Dykstra
Steven Dykstra
179 Points

Thx William. I also now have a reference page for HTML syntax that I am using: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

hi, steven, technically speaking, your HTML is valid, it will works on any browser; the grader is being a bit strict here. But typically speaking, if you look at HTML source from any page, people generally write attribute assignment charset="utf-8" instead of charset = "utf-8" for better readability, I guess it's a convention thing.