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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Venkatesh Varadachari
Venkatesh Varadachari
7,524 Points

add charset to your meta tag

set the character set

JS Lee
JS Lee
8,159 Points

<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> </head> <body> </body> </html>

1 Answer

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points
Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points

You can read more about charsets here - http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_charset.asp.

You need the following tag:

<meta charset="UTF-8">