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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Jacob Olenick
Jacob Olenick
1,295 Points

I'm doing the charset correctly and it's saying it is wrong?

It says to write the <meta charset"utf-8"> and I'm writing it correctly but it's saying I'm wrong. I don't want this to effect my points

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset"utf-8">
    <title> jacob | Designer</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You are missing an = sign between charset and "utf-8". Like this:

<meta charset="utf-8">

In programming even minor typos like this is enough to make your code invalid. And the code checker is correct in marking it as wrong.

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points
Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi Jacob,

I like to look for online references at times if there is something I am not quite getting.

Have a look at this on the charset attribute

Hope this helps you out :)

Craig