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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Patti Nearing
Patti Nearing
696 Points

Still Lost on this challenge

Front-end Web Design --- challenge wants me to add a head and a body line(s). I can not figure out what is wrong !! Got some help earlier but I still can't figure what I am missing. Any help, most appreciated !!!

Gregory Woods
Gregory Woods
1,254 Points

<!doctype html>

<html>

<head> </head>

<body> </body>

</html>

4 Answers

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

make sure you add both opening and closing head and body tags and that you put them between the opening and closing html tags:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>
Patti Nearing
Patti Nearing
696 Points
Patti Nearing
Patti Nearing
696 Points

aaarrrggghhh !!! My input looks just like your example, but the challenge says I need a header tag. I don't understand what I have done wrong !!! How can I send you a picture of what I did ??

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

Try refreshing your browser and starting over. Sometimes the challenges glitch

Patti Nearing
Patti Nearing
696 Points
Patti Nearing
Patti Nearing
696 Points

Stone, I went back and retyped the whole thing, and this time IT WORKED YEA !!!!! Thanks to you and earlier, thanks to Todd !!!!!

Patti Nearing
Patti Nearing
696 Points
Patti Nearing
Patti Nearing
696 Points

Oh poop --- still getting message "need html tag" so frustrated !!!