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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Genevieve Forstag
Genevieve Forstag
187 Points

What is a HTML doctype tag?

I have started my page with <1DOCTYPE html> but getting a message that I have not defined my html doctype tag. I don't know what this means.

2 Answers

Sreng Hong
Sreng Hong
15,083 Points
Sreng Hong
Sreng Hong
15,083 Points

It asked you to specific the version of html you want to use.

In this challenge, it uses a html 5, so you have to declare it like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration must be the very first thing in your HTML document, before the html tag and it also help your browser knows what type of document to expect.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Check out the build structure video around the 1 minute mark.