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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Maryanne Gray
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Maryanne Gray
Courses Plus Student 290 Points
Posted by Maryanne Gray
Maryanne Gray
Courses Plus Student 290 Points

Head and Body tags

can someone tell me what is wrong with this? 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html></html>
<HEAD>
  <meta> charset="utf-8">
  <title>mab designer</title>
</HEAD>
  <body>





</body>

5 Answers

Simon Truong
Simon Truong
2,179 Points

Hello Maryanne,

Your code is not well designed. It should look something like this :

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

Peace,

Nam

Kyle Meyer
Kyle Meyer
5,459 Points

Shoot, you beat me to it! :-)

David Trejo
David Trejo
19,914 Points
David Trejo
David Trejo
19,914 Points

Your html closing tag </html> has to come after the body closing tag </body>.

Kyle Meyer
Kyle Meyer
5,459 Points
Kyle Meyer
Kyle Meyer
5,459 Points

Howdy Maryanne Gray,

The <html> tag needs to wrap all the content on the page, and the <head> tag should be lowercase. It should look like:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>mab designer</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- :zap: INSERT SCIENCE HERE :zap: -->
 </body>
</html>
Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
6,144 Points
Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
6,144 Points

Your <html>tag should embrace all the other tags except the doctype.

Also, you closed the meta tag before the end of it :

<meta charset="utf-8">
Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points
Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points

Hi Maryanne,

Just a simple typo, you have closed your <meta> tag too early and move your html to the bottom and things will be tiketiboo…

:)