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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Brad Winslow
Brad Winslow
306 Points

What do you mean by document root?

the tasks asks to create an element to serve as a document root. Not sure where you want me to go with this

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8"></meta>
      <title> Brad Winslow | Programmer</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <h1>Brad Winslow</h1>
      <h2>Programer</h2>
    </header>
    <section>
    <P> Gallery will go here.</P>
    </section>
    <footer>
    <p>&copy; 2014 Brad Winslow</p>
    </footer>
  </body>  
</html>

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Brad,

I'm not sure where all that code came from. For the challenge that you are linked from, the 1st part asks you to: "Write an HTML doctype." This goes at the very top of every HTML document. 

<!doctype HTML>

The second task asks you to "Create the HTML element that will serve as the document root." This is the opening and closing <html> tags. Everything else will always go between them, so the html element serves as the root. So for task 2 of the challenge, you should only have 

<!doctype HTML>

<html>

</html>

Hope that helps. Keep Coding! :)