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doesnt change how it supposed to be

I refresh my index.html page over and over again, but no matter how I followed what the video present, it just doesn't change even a little bit what might it should be like. why is it? I even already use the codepen as well.. whats wrong?

3 Answers

it turned out that i dont need to type the <!DOCTYPE HTML> at the beginning do you know why is that?

thanks!

it turned out that i dont need to type the <!DOCTYPE HTML> at the beginning do you know why is that?

thanks!

Julie (Howard) Lewis
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Julie (Howard) Lewis
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Out of the context of the code, it's hard to say exactly what was going on here. However, when you're writing your own code, best web practices indicate that you should always use a doctype declaration so that the browser knows what version of HTML your page it written in.

okay thanks!