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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Darrell Zamora
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Darrell Zamora
Courses Plus Student 2,042 Points
Posted by Darrell Zamora
Darrell Zamora
Courses Plus Student 2,042 Points

Write an HTML doc tag

is this not the answer to question 1: <! DOCTYPE html>?

Do I need to write the header, body, etc tags as well?

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

<body>

  <header
  </header>
  <section>
  </section>>

  <footer>
  </footer>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

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

You just have a typo.

Remove the space between the exclamation ("!") and the word "DOCTYPE".

Emin Grbo
Emin Grbo
13,092 Points
Emin Grbo
Emin Grbo
13,092 Points

It needs to be together, you have an extra space after "!"

<!DOCTYPE html>