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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson
241 Points
Posted by Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson
241 Points

What does "Set the character set for page" mean? Help? Thanks.

I am on Challenge Task 4 of 6

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body></body>
</html>
katiaalamir
katiaalamir
7,091 Points

To set the character set for a page is to tell the browser which character encoding it should use.

include this into you <head> tag:

<meta charset="utf-8">

This lets the browser know that the page is using the UTF-8 character set.

UTF-8 supports more characters than ASCII, allowing international languages to be represented.

2 Answers

Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points
Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points

Hi Scott!

The code that you will need is as follows.

<meta charset="utf-8">

This is not actually content on the page but rather some code which is more to do with which characters can be displayed on the screen. Can you figure out where this code would go?

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Caleb,

It's a case-insensitive match. Both your answer and Luke's would be fine.

Caleb Kleveter
MOD
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 Points
Caleb Kleveter
Caleb Kleveter
Treehouse Moderator 37,862 Points

It wants you to type out the meta tag with the charset in it:

<meta charset="UTF-8">