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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Holly Holliday
Holly Holliday
1,563 Points
Posted by Holly Holliday
Holly Holliday
1,563 Points

Quiz says I'm wrong. It says: Create the HTML element that will serve as a document root. I put <html> <html>. ??

confused?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <html>

1 Answer

Salman Akram
Salman Akram
Courses Plus Student 40,065 Points

Hi Holly

You need to have end tag of HTML with dash "/" inside, then you can do same with other end tags of header, footer, body, div, span, etc

Begin tag - < HTML >

End tag - < /HTML >

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>  // begin tag


</html>  // end tag

Previous thread: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/i-am-taking-the-quiz-about-how-to-make-a-webpage-it-ask-create-the-html-element-that-will-serve-as-a-document-root-it

Hope that helps.