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Posted by Suli S
Suli S
1,475 Points

HTML 5 meta tag

I noticed that there are many ways of adding the meta tag here in Treehouse. some videos use only: meta charset = utf-8 and in other videos they use longer lines than just this one. So, which one should I use?

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

If you're using HTML5

<!DOCTYPE html>

It doesn't really matter. Use the shorter one, it's easier.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4696499/meta-charset-utf-8-vs-meta-http-equiv-content-type

Ricardo Diaz
Ricardo Diaz
30,415 Points
Ricardo Diaz
Ricardo Diaz
30,415 Points

Both work but with HTML5 the shorter one is acceptable and recommend. I remember in college they forced us to use the long version...painful but true. For one test I had to remember it and actually write it out.