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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Paco Bahena
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Paco Bahena
Courses Plus Student 5,857 Points

"remember to add a character set attribute for your meta tag" i wrote <meta charset = "utf-8"> and got it wrong. Why ?

dont get it, why i am wrong?

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
    <head>
      <meta charset>
    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
  </html>

4 Answers

huckleberry
huckleberry
14,636 Points

Ok well by the looks of it they just want you to get rid of the space after the equal operator.

As far as I know that whitespace won't affect the actual code but it is common and best practice to not have a space after the = so that's probably what's messing you up there.

huckleberry
huckleberry
14,636 Points

in the code you posted there's no charset attribute in the metatag. I'm assuming that was just an error in this post but could you paste your entire actual answer code just to be sure? Most likely it may just be a simple error in syntax like a missing quote or closing tag or something.

Thanks,

Paco Bahena
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Paco Bahena
Courses Plus Student 5,857 Points

this is my code

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

huckleberry
huckleberry
14,636 Points

You're very welcome :)