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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Joshua Sander
Joshua Sander
338 Points

Says to add "meta tag," but tag is already there

Does anyone spot the problem?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
  <meta charset=
<body></body>
</html>
Joshua Sander
Joshua Sander
338 Points

It also gave me an error when I completed the line as: <meta charset="utf-8">

Joshua Sander
Joshua Sander
338 Points

It also gave me an error when I completed the line as: <meta charset="utf-8">

3 Answers

Pete Cass
Pete Cass
16,656 Points
Pete Cass
Pete Cass
16,656 Points

You need to give a value to charset and close the tag

<meta charset = "utf-8">
Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points
Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points

Remove the spaces between the equal sign and the word charset as well as between the equal sign and the value.

<meta charset="utf-8">

Good luck!

Saskia

Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points
Tim Knight
Tim Knight
28,888 Points

In addition to the other comments of completing the meta tag with:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

You need to make sure that meta tag is specified within the head and not the body.

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

</body>
</html>