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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Jessica Jones
Jessica Jones
216 Points
Posted by Jessica Jones
Jessica Jones
216 Points

html element

What am I doing wrong?

Create the HTML element that will serve as the document root. Bummer! Make sure you define the HTML tag for the document root. PreviewRecheck work index.html

<!DOCTYPE html> <html>

2 Answers

Pedro Cabral
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Pedro Cabral
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 23,916 Points
Pedro Cabral
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Pedro Cabral
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 23,916 Points

What you have so far is the doctype, you need the opening and closing tags for the html element, which represents the root of a document: 

<html>
</html>
Jessica Jones
Jessica Jones
216 Points
Jessica Jones
Jessica Jones
216 Points

I had the opening but I didn't have the closing. Thanks