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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by noor khanabad
noor khanabad
689 Points

how i add a character set attribute for your meta tag.

what is the character set

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset ="utf"-8> 
    <title> noor / writer </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
    <h1> Noor</h1> 
    <h2>designer</h2>
    </header>
    <section>
      gallery will go here 
    </section> 
    <footer>
      <p> &copy; 2015 noor </p>
    </footer>
  </body> 
    </html>
Clint Rogers
Clint Rogers
869 Points

Try taking the space out between the "charset" and "=" see if that helps.

3 Answers

Clint Rogers
Clint Rogers
869 Points

Try taking the space out between the "charset" and "=" see if that helps. also try "UTF-8"

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points
Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

Change your code from:

<meta charset ="utf"-8>

to:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

So your error is that you are closing the quotation-marks too early and the spacing between charset and = might also be an issue.

To answer your question though about what charset is, this is how the W3 defines the charset:

To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know the character set used in the page.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_charset.asp

Juan Aviles
Juan Aviles
12,795 Points
Juan Aviles
Juan Aviles
12,795 Points

Take a close look at your double quotes, and keep in mind what has to go inside of them.