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HTML

Posted by Lewis Alonso
Lewis Alonso
217 Points

Task Challenge Question- Front-End Development

Stuck in this question, Here is the question "Create the HTML element that will serve as the document root." I put a header, style, head, section and is not working. Maybe I'm not putting it down the right way. Anyhelp will be appreciated. Thanks

2 Answers

Michael Wooff
Michael Wooff
9,026 Points

opening and closing the html element is all you need to do...

<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> </html>

Lewis Alonso
Lewis Alonso
217 Points

thank you. it really helped.

Andrew McCombs
Andrew McCombs
4,309 Points
Andrew McCombs
Andrew McCombs
4,309 Points 
<DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8"> //only if you need it for the code challenge. Not sure
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body> or <section>

</body> or </section>
</html>

You didn't provide a link to i could not test it. If you would like to post the link ill get the answer for you..

Lewis Alonso
Lewis Alonso
217 Points

i wasn't closing the html element, thank you however.