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stephanie sutedja
3,693 PointsIs 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.
<html><\html>
4 Answers
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stephanie sutedja
3,693 PointsThank you for helping me.
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wuworkshop
3,429 PointsYou have a typo in your closing tag. It's the wrong slash.
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Omar Hernandez
4,788 PointsHey Steph, you have to put the normal slash for closing "/". Cheers
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Isaac Asante
4,752 PointsHey 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.