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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Devante Phetdara
Devante Phetdara
5,567 Points

What am I doing wrong

can someone help me

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset = "utf-8">
  <title>Devante Phetdara</title>
  </head>
<body>
  </body>
</html>
John Goulart
John Goulart
11,279 Points
John Goulart
John Goulart
11,279 Points

Remove the space after charset.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

You have some extra spaces.

When defining attributes inside tags, there should not be any spaces unless they are part of the value and enclosed in quotes. Some browsers may let you get away with having them anyway, but the challenge won't.

  <meta charset="utf-8">