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HTML HTML Introduction Global Structure: Part 2

Posted by Peter Downs
Peter Downs
3,421 Points

localhost?

When I open my index.html file with the browser, I get all of the code. I don't get "This is a div." I feel like I missed a step, but can't figure out what it is. What am I missing?

David Lane
David Lane
33,414 Points
David Lane
David Lane
33,414 Points

Please post your code, we need to see your markup to figure out the problem.

Peter Downs
Peter Downs
3,421 Points

Here's the code:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang=“en”> <head> <meta charset=“utf-8”> <title>My Page</title> </head> <body> <div>This is a div.</div> </body> </html>

Peter Downs
Peter Downs
3,421 Points

To put it another way, when I refresh localhost, it does not change to My Page.

David Lane
David Lane
33,414 Points
David Lane
David Lane
33,414 Points

What type of localhost are you running? When done in MAMP, your code produces a blank page that says "This is a div." with a title of "My Page".

Peter Downs
Peter Downs
3,421 Points

I don't know. I'm just following the HTML tutorial: open localhost in chrome, create and save index.html, refresh localhost, and for me, nothing happens. I am using a mac. Do I need to set up, download, or switch on something? It is not covered in this track.

Peter Downs
Peter Downs
3,421 Points

I think my next step will be a google search on setting up localhost on a mac running os x.

Justin Swatloski
Justin Swatloski
5,769 Points

Maybe the problem comes from not having opening and closing <html> tags.

Try 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
(YOUR CODE)
</html>
Peter Downs
Peter Downs
3,421 Points

Nope, already has the opening and closing tags.

I found instructions online that recommended putting index.html into a Sites folder in Home, instead of on the desktop. Now, when I go to localhost it does go directly to index.html, but it still just displays the code instead of rendering a page according to the html in the code.

Tena Spoljar
Tena Spoljar
13,783 Points

Hi! I believe your problem could be that you don't have your index.html in the right directory, or even a web server like apache installed.

But you don't need that to start learning and testing html! Simply open that index.html file with a browser and everything should be working fine. At that point you can call your html what ever you like, as long as it has .html extension.

1 Answer

Peter Downs
Peter Downs
3,421 Points
Peter Downs
Peter Downs
3,421 Points

Yeah, I used a browser to do it.

I'll check to see if updating my OS uninstalled Apache. I hadn't thought of that.