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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

John Conway
John Conway
2,868 Points
Posted by John Conway
John Conway
2,868 Points

Error message "Bummer! A header element needs to appear between the <body> and </body> tags.".

I have an <h1></h1> set between body tags along with the <section<>/section> and <footer></footer> as asked in the previous questions. So what is wrong here?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title></title> 
    <meta CHARSET="UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1></h1> 
    <section></section>
    <footer></footer>
 </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points
Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points

You added an H1 element to the body instead of the header element they asked you for. They are too different tags.

Here's what the HTML should look like:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header></header>

    <section></section>

    <footer></footer>  
  </body>
</html>

Note: I checked the above code in the challenge and verified that it passed.

lucybeck
lucybeck
6,055 Points
lucybeck
lucybeck
6,055 Points

HI John, You are doing well and your code will still build a web page...except in this case you only need a <header> Tag because the challenge question requires it.