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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Daniel Holmes
Daniel Holmes
2,765 Points

help

what am I doing wrong

4 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi Daniel.

Could you post some code for us so we can see which part of the code challenge you're struggling with?

I'm taking a punt that it's the first part in which case you just need the html5 document type definition (DTD) which is as easy as 

<!doctype html>
Daniel Holmes
Daniel Holmes
2,765 Points
Daniel Holmes
Daniel Holmes
2,765 Points

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head><title>coding</title></head> <body></body> <h1></h1> </html>

Daniel Holmes
Daniel Holmes
2,765 Points
Daniel Holmes
Daniel Holmes
2,765 Points

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset = "utf- 8"> <title> D Holmes </title> </head> <body></body> <h1></h1> </html>

I thought you get the code here it is

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi Daniel,

My fault. :) I didn't realise what happened first time when you tried to post your code. Before I tell you where I think you're going wrong I encourage you to learn forum Markdown Code as this is how we post code to the forums.

You can also add it automatically when you're asking for help on a particular code challenge.

To see examples of Forum Markdown click the "Markdown Cheatsheet" link.

Anyway I think where you're going wrong is with your header element. It needs to go inside the body element. Yours is below as a sibling element, that is in the same level in the document "tree".

So try it like this 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>  <meta charset = "utf- 8"> <title> D Holmes </title> </head>
  <body> 
     <h1></h1>
</body>

</html>