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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by brian reyes
brian reyes
992 Points

It says to set a character set for the page. Why am I wrong? I feel as if I'm doing it right, but what am I doing wrong?

I know I did something wrong, but what is it?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset=utf-8>
  </head>
  <body></body>
</html>
brian reyes
brian reyes
992 Points

wow! yeah, thanks.

1 Answer

Steven Bister
Steven Bister
12,011 Points
Steven Bister
Steven Bister
12,011 Points

Hey man, all you need to do is add a couple of quote marks around utf-8 like this:

 <meta charset="utf-8">