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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Lucas Bittencourt
Lucas Bittencourt
413 Points

what's wrong here?

Why it keeps saying I'm wrong on the set character part ?

<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title></title> </head>

<body> </body> </html>

3 Answers

Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
50,595 Points
Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
50,595 Points

Hi Lucas,

you want to use capital letters like

<!DOCTYPE html>
rayorke
rayorke
27,709 Points
rayorke
rayorke
27,709 Points

According to the W3 Working draft ( http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/syntax.html ) the doctype declaration is not case-sensitive, and should be valid if written as

<!DOCTYPE html>

or as 

<!doctype html>

or even 

<!DoCtYpE hTmL>

Issues can happen though if the web page is being parsed as XHTML - which will return an error if you don't use:

<!DOCTYPE html>

This is why it's simply best practice to use uppercase.

Lucas Bittencourt
Lucas Bittencourt
413 Points
Lucas Bittencourt
Lucas Bittencourt
413 Points

wow, that was a fast response. Thank you very much. I almost started to think that the software had a problem lol.