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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Jesper Ravn
Jesper Ravn
1,155 Points

html root

how do you make the html root ?

3 Answers

James Gill
PLUS
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points
James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

Jesper,

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

</html>

The <html> elements are the "root" you're looking for.

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 Points
Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 Points

Try to search it in google little things like this , there will be an answer straight away . If you cant find it though , come here and write it on forum like you do :)

html is the root element

Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points
Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points

What the challenge is looking for are the html tags. They would look like this:

<html>
</html>