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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by AJ Nunez
AJ Nunez
Courses Plus Student 1,269 Points

Question 4 of the test challenge, Web design, html, Set the character set for the page, I'm getting an error...

Why I'm getting this feedback? What am I missing here?

"Remember to add a character set attribute for your meta tag."

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset= "utf-8"> </head> <body></body> </html>

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset=  "utf-8">
  </head>
  <body></body>
</html>
Charity Matema
Charity Matema
5,030 Points

Do not include spaces between equal sign and "utf-8" and it works

2 Answers

Keri Nicole
Keri Nicole
15,134 Points

Hi, AJ! It looks like you have two extra spaces between the "=" symbol and your character set. You'll want it to look like this:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

It doesn't really make a difference whether or not you choose to capitalize the UTF as I did above, but most guidelines will tell you that's it's generally preferred.

AJ Nunez
PLUS
AJ Nunez
Courses Plus Student 1,269 Points
AJ Nunez
AJ Nunez
Courses Plus Student 1,269 Points

Awesome Keri, that worked! Thank you!!!!