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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Build Structure

Posted by amyp
amyp
6,574 Points

Please describe meta charset="ut-8"

please describe

3 Answers

Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points
Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points

Hi! It is meta charser=utf-8 btw, and it specifies the character encoding for the HTML document.

  • The UTF-8 is for Character encoding for Unicode.

You can read more about this here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_meta_charset.asp

Tyler Hanson
Tyler Hanson
1,755 Points
Tyler Hanson
Tyler Hanson
1,755 Points

Hi, UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format. The '8' means it uses 8-bit blocks to represent a character. The charset attribute tells what type of character encoding is being used which would be the utf-8. you can read more here on it if you need:

http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_utf8.asp

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

I think you mean "UTF-8". It's the standard character set for the Web.

And the meta tag tells the browser what character set to expect the page to use. Here's some additional info sources for UTF-8: