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Posted by Henry Brenton
Henry Brenton
10,144 Points

Addition of meta tag makes loads of my HTML highlight in red - video followed

Hi all, I've followed the video, and when it came to adding the meta tag for controlling the viewport towards the end of the video ('meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width", initial-scale=1.0">') the '=' sign between 'initial-scale' and '1.0' was suddenly highlighted red, as was a large portion of my code beneath it, from the '</head>' through to the </html> at the end of the page.

Specifically, all of the anchor elements, the h1 and h2 elements, and the " class=" sections have been highlighted in red as well as my twitter handle.

Has anybody had this problem before, and might you know what's going on, and how to remedy this problem?

Many Thanks in advance

Henry

1 Answer

joelmneskld
joelmneskld
3,993 Points

Hi Henry, the reason for this might be because there are too many (" and ') where there should not be any. This is how the correct meta tag looks for this one: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

This one will give you error: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width", initial-scale=1.0">

There are lots of code editors that will help you highlight this. I would recommend you to use Visual Studio Code.

Hope this helps /Joel

Henry Brenton
Henry Brenton
10,144 Points

That worked - thank you Joel!