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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Create the Content Containers

Posted by Araceli Andrade
Araceli Andrade
153 Points

Why is my preview not updating? I entered the code in W.S while watching video.

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Araceli Andrade | Designer</title> </head> <body> <header> <h1>Araceli Andrade</h1> <h2>Designer</h2> </header> <section> <p>Gallery will go here.</p> </section> <footer> <p>Ā© 2015 Araceli Andrade.</p> </footer> </body> </html>

2 Answers

David Service
David Service
12,928 Points
David Service
David Service
12,928 Points

Hi Araceli,

In addition to what Julian was saying about saving your work and then refreshing your workspace to see the results, I've noticed that you're missing the necessary HTML and BODY tags necessary for your webpage to work.

The opening HTML tag should be placed immediately after the <!DOCTYPE html> tag, while the closing HTML tag should be at the very bottom of your file.

The BODY tag should be just underneath where your header ends, and the closing BODY tag should be placed just before your footer begins.

These different "container" elements help your web browser to make sense of which part of the webpage is which.

Hope this helps. :)

Araceli Andrade
Araceli Andrade
153 Points

Thank you, yes i forgot to follow up my <!DOCTYPE>

Julian Aramburu
Julian Aramburu
11,368 Points
Julian Aramburu
Julian Aramburu
11,368 Points

Did you refresh the preview? Browsers don't have live preview so everytime you make a change (did you save your changes?) you must refresh your browser in order to see those changes :).