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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story HTML Structure

Jason Prudhomme
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Jason Prudhomme
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Posted by Jason Prudhomme
Jason Prudhomme
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how do i set doctype

whats the first step

index.html

4 Answers

Alejandro Mesa
Alejandro Mesa
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Alejandro Mesa
Alejandro Mesa
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
The content of the document......
</body>

</html>
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
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Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

Hey Jason,

actually both Arthur and Alejandro gave you the answer but I wanted to add that the doctype declaration itself is actually just this part:

<!DOCTYPE html>

I hope that helps! :)