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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Pavle Coric
Pavle Coric
10,753 Points
Posted by Pavle Coric
Pavle Coric
10,753 Points

I'm putting the following meta inside my head tag and it's not working: <meta charset = "utf-8">

yea

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

2 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Pavle,

Remove the spaces before and after the equals and you should be sorted :)

So...

<meta charset = "utf-8">

would become:

<meta charset="utf-8">

Hope that helps!

-Rich

John Burkhard
John Burkhard
16,314 Points
John Burkhard
John Burkhard
16,314 Points

Remove the spaces before and after the = sign and add the closing slash.

Try:

<meta charset="utf-8" />