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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Eric Guindon
Eric Guindon
167 Points

Define HTML Doc Type

Howdy, I'm working on this challenge and have received the message "make sure you define HTML Doc Type"

What am I missing here?

2 Answers

Darren Kynaston
PLUS
Darren Kynaston
Courses Plus Student 15,610 Points
Darren Kynaston
Darren Kynaston
Courses Plus Student 15,610 Points

<!DOCTYPE html>

make sure that's at the top of your html page - it "defines" what the page is i.e. a .html5 document

Hope that helps?

Daz

Darren Kynaston
PLUS
Darren Kynaston
Courses Plus Student 15,610 Points
Darren Kynaston
Darren Kynaston
Courses Plus Student 15,610 Points

<!DOCTYPE html>

make sure that's at the top of your html page - it "defines" what the page is i.e. a .html5 document

Hope that helps?

Daz

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
</html>