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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

stephanie sutedja
stephanie sutedja
3,693 Points
Posted by stephanie sutedja
stephanie sutedja
3,693 Points

Is there an error on challenge task 2 HTML First Stage 2? I can't get pass create a root html tag.

<!DOCTYPE html> <html><\html>

This answer creates an error for me.

index.html 
<html><\html>

4 Answers

wuworkshop
wuworkshop
3,429 Points
wuworkshop
wuworkshop
3,429 Points

You have a typo in your closing tag. It's the wrong slash.

Omar Hernandez
Omar Hernandez
4,788 Points
Omar Hernandez
Omar Hernandez
4,788 Points

Hey Steph, you have to put the normal slash for closing "/". Cheers

Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points
Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points

Hey Stephanie, at Stage 2 of this Challenge, your code should be like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
</html>

As you see in my code, I'm using a forward slash in the closing html tag, not a backward slash. So using the backward slash is your mistake.