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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Sofia Bastulli
PLUS
Sofia Bastulli
Courses Plus Student 612 Points
Posted by Sofia Bastulli
Sofia Bastulli
Courses Plus Student 612 Points

Set the Character set for the page help

What am I doing wrong with the meta tag?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> 
<head>
  <meta charset ="utf-8"> 
</head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

There just can't be a space on either side of the =. Try this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> 
<head>
  <!-- Note the closing / at the end of the following tag. That's just a preference thing. I like to do it, but you don't have to -->
  <meta charset="utf-8"/> 
</head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>
jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Oops,

Didn't catch that.

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points
jacobproffer
jacobproffer
24,604 Points

Hey Sofia,

Try writing the character set using capital letters.

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,913 Points

What's in the quotes is case-insensitive. Thus, it's inconsequential whether it's written as "utf-8" or "UTF-8". The problem lies in that there can't be a space on either side of the =