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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Heather Hargreaves
Heather Hargreaves
1,476 Points

Is anyone else having trouble setting the character set type for the HTML challenge task?

I keep adding

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

but my code seems to not check through.

Clayton Malarkey
Clayton Malarkey
12,109 Points

post your code then maybe i can see where the problem is

Heather Hargreaves
Heather Hargreaves
1,476 Points

Hi Clayton,

I did write my code in the comment, I realize now that it won't show unless I have a screenshot of it. Could you tell me how to share code in a comment?

2 Answers

Juan Perez
PLUS
Juan Perez
Courses Plus Student 8,944 Points
Juan Perez
Juan Perez
Courses Plus Student 8,944 Points

Hi, Heather Hargreaves

You should have The charset inside the <head> tags like this 

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

hope this was of help.

Cheers!

Heather Hargreaves
Heather Hargreaves
1,476 Points
Heather Hargreaves
Heather Hargreaves
1,476 Points

Thanks so much Juan! That worked for me. I think I had spaces around the equal sign, I didn't realize that the code had to be exact.