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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Justin Evangelista
Justin Evangelista
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Posted by Justin Evangelista
Justin Evangelista
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what is the character of a page

what is the character set

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head></head>
  <body></body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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The character set of a page is set in a meta tag. But if your question is what is a character set it means well... the set of characters to be used. For example, Chinese characters look nothing like English characters :) So you have to tell it which set of characters should be loaded in. That being said, utf-8 is the most common character set in use on the web (or what I've read anyway). Good luck!