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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story HTML Structure

Mike Hernandez
Mike Hernandez
2,330 Points
Posted by Mike Hernandez
Mike Hernandez
2,330 Points

adding the <p> tag between the <body> and the </body>

I dont quite understand how to do this?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body></body></html><head></head><body>"My first paragraph!"</body>

2 Answers

Carrie MacDonald
Carrie MacDonald
16,157 Points
Carrie MacDonald
Carrie MacDonald
16,157 Points

Hi Mike,

It looks like you have some extra <head></head> and <body></body> tags in your markup.

You could wrap your text in the <p></p> tag like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>My first paragraph!</p>
    </body>
</html>```

Note: I removed the quotes around the text: My first paragraph, but you could leave the quotes in, if you would like the quotes to display around the text in the browser window.

For reference, here's your original code (with the duplicate elements pointed out via HTML comments:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head></head> <body></body> </html> <head> <!-- Duplicate opening head tag --> </head> <!-- Duplicate closing head tag --> <body> <!-- Duplicate opening body tag --> "My first paragraph!" </body> <!-- Duplicate closing body tag -->

Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points
Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points

It looks like you have an extra set of head and body tags after the closing html tag. Go ahead and delete those, and nest your paragraph inside the original body tag.