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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Adding a New Web Page Test: Write and Style an Element

Posted by Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins
10,080 Points

DOCTYPE

What does this mean "without quotes?"

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

1 Answer

David Moorhead
David Moorhead
18,005 Points
David Moorhead
David Moorhead
18,005 Points

Hi, Lynn Collins,

"without quotes" is a puzzle for me, too.

The proper DOCTYPE syntax would replace the period with a space, and replace HTML with lower case.

Is that helpful? :smile:

David