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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith
443 Points

Meta tag

I have typed the code

<meta charset = "utf-8">

and have it nested under my <head> tags in my workspace. However i'm still getting an error in the activity stating that I have not set the character attribute to my meta tag. I thought that the charset and the "value" of utf-8 was setting this? I'm continuing to receive an error

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

</html>

1 Answer

Jon Major
Jon Major
3,531 Points
Jon Major
Jon Major
3,531 Points

Hi Jeremy,

There's nothing technically wrong with your code, but from what I understand it's generally frowned upon to include spaces before and after the "=" sign which separates the attribute from its value.

It looks like the activity quiz doesn't recognize the code as correct when you include the spaces. Try eliminating them and you should be good to go.