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HTML Treehouse Club: HTML Publish a Story HTML Structure

Posted by Daniel Hughes
Daniel Hughes
813 Points

how do you open new code with doctype

I have <!--Dan Hughes--html> it coming up as the wrong answer?

index.html 
<!Dan Hughes--html>

2 Answers

Ryan Dudley
Ryan Dudley
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ryan Dudley
Ryan Dudley
Treehouse Project Reviewer

When declaring a doctype, it follows a strict syntax. The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is telling the web browser what version of HTML the page is written in. The doctype for html5 should always be as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>
Daniel Hughes
Daniel Hughes
813 Points

thanks

Daniel Hughes
Daniel Hughes
813 Points

thanks