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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Build Structure

Posted by MUZ141070 Shelly Chaunoita
MUZ141070 Shelly Chaunoita
6,687 Points

how do I set a character of a page?

I want to know more about the meta-tag

1 Answer

Hannah Gaskins
Hannah Gaskins
14,572 Points
Hannah Gaskins
Hannah Gaskins
14,572 Points

Hey MUZ141070 Shelly Chaunoita,

You can add the following character set tag to the <head></head> section of your HTML5 page: 

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
</head>

This code lets the browser know what character set or character encoding to use.

The character set itself defines the 127 different alphanumeric characters that can be used within an HTML5 document.

You can check out the list of characters from this link here:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_charset.asp

Additionally meta tags themselves are data about data. So in an HTML document the <meta> tags will provide metadata about the document itself. This will not be displayed on the page but can be seen within the source code. For more information on this, check out this site here:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

Hope this helps!

Cheers :)