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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Yuya Kawahara
Yuya Kawahara
825 Points
Posted by Yuya Kawahara
Yuya Kawahara
825 Points

Set the character set of the page

Below is what I typed but got it wrong.

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

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

never mind. I got it.

1 Answer

huckleberry
huckleberry
14,636 Points
huckleberry
huckleberry
14,636 Points

Meta tags are self closing tags but they still require to be closed with a greater than angle bracket...

Simply put, you're missing some required closing brackets in there bud. Pay attention to odd highlighting of the syntax and you'll notice that some of the other angle brackets are highlighted orange. When you see that, that means one of the tags aren't closed properly. You have two orange highlights so what does that tell you?

Look over the code again and make sure all your tags are closed properly :)