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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Aldo Romero
Aldo Romero
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Posted by Aldo Romero
Aldo Romero
4,243 Points

Character set for page

it's telling me "Remember to add a character set attribute for your meta tag." I don't know what that means though, can someone explain this to me? Here is my code... <!Doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset = "utf-8"> </head> <body>

</body> </html>

3 Answers

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

It's asking to specify the character encoding that your page uses. What you want is Unicode (as opposed to ASCII, or something similar). This code passes at the point where I think you are:

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

The meta tag nested in the head tag is what's important. The attribute you're looking for is charset, and the value you need is "utf-8", which is the most popular form of Unicode used today.

Roberto Alicata
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Roberto Alicata
Courses Plus Student 39,959 Points
Roberto Alicata
Roberto Alicata
Courses Plus Student 39,959 Points

you need to write this inside the HEAD tag:

<meta charset="UTF-8">
Aldo Romero
Aldo Romero
4,243 Points
Aldo Romero
Aldo Romero
4,243 Points

Okay. Thanks. I got it.