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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Adding a New Web Page Write the HTML

Posted by Bridget Word
Bridget Word
3,237 Points

One line of code is missing from this video. <html lang="en"> Do we need this when making webpages?

One line of code is missing from this video. <html lang="en"> Do we need this when making webpages?

2 Answers

edwardr
edwardr
10,272 Points

As long there is a <html> and </html> tags, your good since these are the first and last tags of an html page. The attribute lang="en" can be skipped.

Bridget Word
Bridget Word
3,237 Points

Thank you!

Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points
Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points

A page has to have a set of html tags, but it's not strictly required for it to have a lang attribute.