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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Emily Snow
Emily Snow
1,228 Points

It keeps telling me to put the header tags inside the body tags, but I am already. What am I doing wrong?

I'm typing <body> <header> </header> </body> What am I doing wrong?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>

  <head>
    <title> Welcome. </title>
  <meta charset="8">
  </head>
  <body><header></header></body>
</html>

2 Answers

Daniel Gauthier
Daniel Gauthier
15,000 Points
Daniel Gauthier
Daniel Gauthier
15,000 Points

Hey Emily,

The question you appear to be stuck on is asking you to "Add a header element, section element, and footer element."

You haven't added your section or footer elements yet.

The code below will pass:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>World's Greatest Website</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <header>

    </header>

    <section>

    </section>

    <footer>

    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

Good luck with the challenge!

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

I see that you have this code: 

<meta charset="8">

Try writing this: 

<meta charset="UTF-8">

I have the sneaking suspicion it's not even making it down to your header and body tags.

Daniel Gauthier
Daniel Gauthier
15,000 Points
Daniel Gauthier
Daniel Gauthier
15,000 Points

Good catch Jennifer, I missed that one. I'm surprised that it passed her to the next question since you're asked to set the character set earlier in the challenge.

I just ran through the challenge again and it passes with a charset of "8", which would kind of make sense, since the character set attribute isn't explicit. It would definitely be better to ask the student to use "UTF-8" since it's the character set they'll be working with almost exclusively.