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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Markus Lienhard
Markus Lienhard
835 Points

Challenge Task 4 of 6 Set the character set for the page. ??? Is thought this is <meta charset=""utf-8>

Can anybody help me?

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

  </head>
  <body>

  </body>


</html>

2 Answers

Hey Markus,

Cool name first off! :D Secondly, "utf-8" goes inside the quotes. Anytime you are assigning information to an attribute, it needs to go inside quotes like so:

<meta charset="utf-8">
Markus Lienhard
Markus Lienhard
835 Points

Thanks Marcus cool Name also ...

No problem, Markus! :)