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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by alisonnardella
alisonnardella
179 Points

How do you set a character set?

I am in the How to make a website course and is stuck on one of the problems. How can I change this line of code <meta character="utf-8"> into a character set?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta character="utf-8">
  <title></title>
</head>
<body>
  <p></p>
</body>
<footer></footer>
</html>
Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points 
<meta charset="utf-8">

2 Answers

Cindy Lea
PLUS
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points
Cindy Lea
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points

The utf-8 is the character set for html-5. Html4 uses ISO-8859-1. However, the utf-8 fixes a lot of problems of the prior character sets so it is recommended that you use utf-8 now.

Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points

What's meta-8?

Html4 and 5 can both support multiple character encodings, utf-8 for html5 and iso-8859-1 for html4 are only defaults.