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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Kyle Scott
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Kyle Scott
Courses Plus Student 2,316 Points
Posted by Kyle Scott
Kyle Scott
Courses Plus Student 2,316 Points

Set Character

I am on task 4. and I am putting

 <meta charset ="utf-8"
<title> Kyle Scott | Baker </title>

What am I doing wrong? It say I need to set a meta character.

Kazimierz Matan
Kazimierz Matan
13,257 Points
Kazimierz Matan
Kazimierz Matan
13,257 Points

Do you mean "Set the character set for the page." task in "Stage 2: HTML First" of "How to Make a Website"?

If you made first 3 tasks properly your code in challenge probably looks like below:

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Now your task is to specify a character set (something like "iso-8859-1" or "utf-8"). To do this, in <head> section, you have to use <meta> element with "charset" property and setting its value to one of typical character set values (look into my previous sentence). Just put it together...

2 Answers

Noor Yassin Noor
Noor Yassin Noor
196 Points
Noor Yassin Noor
Noor Yassin Noor
196 Points

in the <head> you can try to type < meta charset="utf-8" > before the adding the title ( <title> )

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

it looks like you forgot to close your meta tag, and you dont need to put a space between charset and the equal sign:

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