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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Walt Disney
Walt Disney
1,602 Points

"Set the character set for the page." I can't understand this question , could you help me ?

What I have to add to the editor for the question on my title ? ( if you don't understand me , I apologize I'm new here in team )

2 Answers

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points
Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points

The charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the HTML document. The charset attribute can be locally overridden using the lang attribute on any element.

<meta charset="utf-8">
IDASFDFDSFDSFdf ASDFASFDFADSFADFDf
IDASFDFDSFDSFdf ASDFASFDFADSFADFDf
2,511 Points
IDASFDFDSFDSFdf ASDFASFDFADSFADFDf
IDASFDFDSFDSFdf ASDFASFDFADSFADFDf
2,511 Points

<meta charset="utf-8"> This specifies the character encoding for the HTML document.