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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Edward Harding
Edward Harding
104 Points

hi i am stuck on the web design track and on the second stage of how to make a website, error, define html doc root.

hi i am stuck on the web design track and on the second stage of how to make a website and it keeps on saying "make sure you define html root" I have put the </example> at the end of every <example> but it keeps on repeating this, IT IS VERY FRUSTRATING.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<hml>
 <head>
   <meta charset="utf-8">
   <title>do click -></title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <header>
   <h1>hello bodil and melon head</h1>
    <h2>troll</h2>
     </header>
    <section>
   <p>simon dont rage</p>
    </section>
   <footer>
    <p>&copy; 2069 the year of bodil40</p>
   </footer>
  </body>
 </hml>

3 Answers

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points
hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Try this code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>This should work</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
    </header>
    <section>
    </section>
    <footer>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

I think that you just added a bunch of extra things and because of that, if there was a syntax error with your extra code, the code challenge engine would reject the whole document.

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Also your html tags are written as

<hml></hml>

instead of 

<html></html>
Joe Timmons
Joe Timmons
4,331 Points
Joe Timmons
Joe Timmons
4,331 Points

Hi Edward, It looks like your html tags are missing a letter. Change hml to html in both opening and closing tags.

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

right

Thomas Rhodes
Thomas Rhodes
8,246 Points
Thomas Rhodes
Thomas Rhodes
8,246 Points

Noticed in your answer it has hml at the top and bottom. For it to pass you would need html Hope this helps