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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Patrice Burgin
Patrice Burgin
103 Points

In the HTML First Stage, how do you add a character set attribute for your meta tag?

I typed: <meta charset= "utf-8"> and it's still requesting I include the character set? Can you please assist?

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

  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>
Neftali Mendez
Neftali Mendez
6,226 Points
Neftali Mendez
Neftali Mendez
6,226 Points

<head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> </head>

3 Answers

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

Hi Patrice,

The issue is the space after the =. Remove this and you should be sorted :)

So:

<meta charset= "utf-8">

will become:

<meta charset="utf-8">

Hope that helps.

-Rich

Josip Dorvak
Josip Dorvak
18,126 Points
Josip Dorvak
Josip Dorvak
18,126 Points

Your browser probably cached a version of your project before you added the meta tag. I would clear your browsers cache and re-run your program and check if you're still getting the same warning

Patrice Burgin
Patrice Burgin
103 Points
Patrice Burgin
Patrice Burgin
103 Points

Thank you so much for all of your support!!!

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

No problem :) Hope it helped!