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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by vishal singh
vishal singh
1,348 Points

setting a character set?

i dont get what that means anyone to help me.

1 Answer

Jan Van Raemdonck
Jan Van Raemdonck
22,961 Points
Jan Van Raemdonck
Jan Van Raemdonck
22,961 Points

To display an HTML page correctly, the browser must know what character set (character encoding) to use

source: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_charactersets.asp