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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

How to add title the <head></head element?

Why doesn't this work?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head><meta charset="htf-8"><title></title></head><body></body></html>

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <meta charset="htf-8"><title></title></head><body></body></html>

Technically what you've written is correct. Almost.

Make sure your meta tag has a closing slash. Meta is one of the less common self closing tags. So you close it like this

<meta charset="htf-8" />

Good luck. :-)

Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

Thx so much!