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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Zack Sauer
Zack Sauer
2,376 Points

What is a charset attribute? I am doing the meta charset exactly as they had it in the video and its wrong

i need help on the challenge. im writing the code exactly as they had it in the video and the meta charset part of the quiz is coming up as wrong stating i need to include a meta attribute.

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

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Zack,

It's not quite like the video. Here, it's missing the equal sign, which assigns the value to the charset.

<meta charset="utf-8">

Keep coding! :) :dizzy: