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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Prahaladh Nagarajan
Prahaladh Nagarajan
Courses Plus Student 289 Points

What is a character set attribute?

I keep getting errors for this code on the challenge and I am having trouble understanding what I am doing wrong.

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

1 Answer

mariuszanou
mariuszanou
16,394 Points
mariuszanou
mariuszanou
16,394 Points

Hi, remove the spaces between charset and the equal symbol and the "utf-8". So write this: <meta charset="utf-8">