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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Adam La Morre
Adam La Morre
365 Points

How do you set the character set for the page?

<meta charset = "utf-8"> does not work in this challenge..

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset>
  </head>
  <body></body>
</html>

2 Answers

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Adam;

Welcome to Treehouse!

As Jesus mentions, you use the charset="UTF-8" statement inside meta tags located in the head portion of the HTML document, at least for HTML5. HTML4 has a different syntax.

Post back with further questions.

Happy coding,
Ken

Adam La Morre
Adam La Morre
365 Points

Thanks I appreciate it!

Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 Points
Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 Points 
<meta charset="utf-8">