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

Posted by Gerald ESPARZA
Gerald ESPARZA
219 Points

I have no clue

What should I put

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html lang="utf-8">
  <title>document</title>
  </head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

3 Answers

joelearner
joelearner
54,915 Points
joelearner
joelearner
54,915 Points

Hi Gerald,

It appears you're missing the opening <head> tag. Try putting that in and see if it works.

Tony Brackins
Tony Brackins
28,766 Points
Tony Brackins
Tony Brackins
28,766 Points

Hey Gerald ESPARZA don't sweat it. Been programming about 5 years. i usually just google "doctype html" and copy/paste it in.

Gerald ESPARZA
Gerald ESPARZA
219 Points

I tried that and nothing that made sense

Brandon Gibbs
Brandon Gibbs
9,636 Points

www.example.com

Go there, view page source. That is your basic site structure. :) Enjoy.

Brandon Gibbs
Brandon Gibbs
9,636 Points
Brandon Gibbs
Brandon Gibbs
9,636 Points

You have a couple of errors here. I'm not sure what context you need this in, but if you are doing anything early in the Treehouse courses you will not need any UTF-8 declarations. If you must, they go inside of the head, and are placed in the meta tags, which you will learn about soon enough...but are not key to you at this point in general.

<!doctype html>

 //This opening tag was missing
  <head> 

  <title>document</title>

//this is where utf-8 would go, as a value to a charset attribute. But this could be left out.
 <meta charset="utf-8" />

  </head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

//you can delete my comments and whitespace that is left behind if you wish.
'''
Brandon Gibbs
Brandon Gibbs
9,636 Points 
<!doctype html>

  <head> 

     <title>Document</title>

  </head>

  <body>

  </body>
</html>

Just to give you something easier to read. This should satisfy the answer for what you are trying to do.