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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Will Rapuano
Will Rapuano
1,084 Points

How do I create the HTML element that will serve as the document root in challenge task 2?

I don't know how to complete the challenge.

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html> 

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

the document root is the html tag.

you need to add both an opening and closing tag as well as the doctype

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html>
</html>