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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story Introduction to Workspaces

Posted by Nicollette Whitfield
Nicollette Whitfield
4,526 Points

<meta charset="utf-8> What does this mean or what does it do? I deleted it from the code and nothing changed?

I copy it from teachers notes back into the code and again nothing changed.??? I don't understand this. Can you please explain this line?

2 Answers

michael mead
michael mead
7,205 Points

The "meta" is info in the head. charset = character set utf-8 is character encoding capable of encoding all characters on the web. It replaced ascii as the default character encoding. Because it is the default all modern browsers will use utf-8 without being explicitly told to do so. It remains in meta data as a common good practice. Until the powers that be (unicode consortium) decide not to use it. utf-8 is used for something like 93% of all web traffic. long story short: leave it in.

Nicollette Whitfield
Nicollette Whitfield
4,526 Points

So because the modern browser will use utf-8 the preview will remain unchanged whether it is is there or not..... I will definitely take your advise and left it in. Thanks for the quick response

Nicollette Whitfield
Nicollette Whitfield
4,526 Points

Thanks Tobias. The second explanation and the visual were helpful.