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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Edwin Cummins
Edwin Cummins
1,516 Points
Posted by Edwin Cummins
Edwin Cummins
1,516 Points

Task not working

I keep getting an error when adding <meta charset = "utf-8">

it is exactly written as shown in the previous video and I have it compiling and working on a website

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

</html>

2 Answers

Dana Al Taher
Dana Al Taher
Courses Plus Student 9,499 Points

Try removing the spaces between charset, the equal sign and the value of the attribute ("utf-8") so that it becomes like this:

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

I tried it both ways (with spaces and without) and this worked.

Edwin Cummins
Edwin Cummins
1,516 Points
Edwin Cummins
Edwin Cummins
1,516 Points

That did the trick! Thanks so much