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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Create an Create the HTML element that will serve as the document root.html tag the

i just dont know what this is

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well the first code challenge was to type a Doc type and you figured it out just right , the 2nd challenge the one you were asking about was just to make the root of your page which is the HTML tag , so adding this "Charles Story | Fund Charles Story Fund Something Here Ā© 2014 Charles Story Fund. " right after your DOCTYPE just not valid otherthan it's not making any sense because you don't have an HTML tag yet , i don't want to confuse you more so just forget about the text you have added and try to just add an html oppening and closing tags

double check your html tag it should be

<html></html>

< html > < / html > not < Hhtml > < / Hhtml >

My bad.. overlooked it. Thanks everyone!

Candice Eisner
Candice Eisner
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By HTML element, they mean the tag. Tags tell the browser what a part of the document is. For example, a p tag is a paragraph tag, and requires a closing /p to end the paragraph.

The root element (tag) is the one that all of the other elements on the page will go inside.

this just means create an html element (tag) <html></html>

I have this so far..

<!DOCTYPE html> <Hhtml> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Charles Story | Fund</title> </head> <body> <header> <h1>Charles Story</h1> <h2>Fund</h2> </header> <section> <p>Something Here</p> </section> <footer> <p>Ā© 2014 Charles Story Fund.</p> </footer> </body> </Hhtml>

See naything wrong?

I have the start <html> and the end</htm> tags, at the top and very bottom.. thanks for the help. any ideas?

i'm sorry i'm not following you , which element you have the start and end tags for ?

this is what I got. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it. http://i.imgur.com/qKczfCP.jpg