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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by valentino castilo
valentino castilo
304 Points

whats a header element

i have it between the body element but it wont work ?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>diegoflores | dragon killer</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1></h1>
  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Victor Ruiz
Victor Ruiz
16,570 Points
Victor Ruiz
Victor Ruiz
16,570 Points

Hi Valentino,

The header element is where the title of your site goes. It normally contains where the style.css is connected to, as well as other scripts for fonts and js. Though some of these jquery or javascript files are suggested to be put in the footer for best practices and better loading. If your working on a single html page on the header you can also do inline css and javasript to add style to the page or functionality. Best practice is to have a style.css and or scripts.js separate from the html.

Hope that helps!

Victor Ruiz
Victor Ruiz
16,570 Points

The title appears on the tabs on top of the browser.

Victor Ruiz
Victor Ruiz
16,570 Points

put something between the h1.

Yaroslav Kleshchev
Yaroslav Kleshchev
8,744 Points
Yaroslav Kleshchev
Yaroslav Kleshchev
8,744 Points

That is not a header tag. H1 tags are often used within header tag to highlight important information. Just wrap the h1 tag with a header tag.

Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins
6,813 Points
Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins
6,813 Points 
 <body>
    <header></header>
    <section></section>
    <footer></footer>
  </body>

They want these 3 elements added into the body portion of your page.