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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Daniel Cairns
Daniel Cairns
Courses Plus Student 418 Points

How do I? Make sure you define the HTML tag for the document root.

Lost on this simple beginner task. Help Please

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
    <head>
      <meta Charset="utf-8>

2 Answers

Aaron Lafleur
Aaron Lafleur
10,474 Points
Aaron Lafleur
Aaron Lafleur
10,474 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
    <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
</html>

Your document root tags are the <html></html> tags.

Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points
Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points

The HTML element should embody your entire code (apart from <!DOCTYPE html>). So it would be like this:

<!DOCTYPE>
<html>
<!-- All your code should be here -->
</html>

At the end of the challenge, your code should be like this:

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