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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

meta charset

I am keep getting error with my meta charset, although I am not sure why.

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

  <head>
    <meta charset = "utf-8">
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>

</html>

Can you be more specific? What error are you getting?

the question was:

add character set to the page.

Did you remove any code or text from the previous question? Perhaps the title tags?

OR Did the question ask you to set the charset as UTF-8 and not utf-8. Sometimes the answer checker the Treehouse is using can be a bit finicky.

yeah, I tried adding <title">"Joseph</title">", and also tried "UTF-8". It doesn't work, which is fine, but it just bugs me. for some reason the tag is literally being omitted. I actually was correct with the title syntax.

1 Answer

hey Seung Woo Jung and Walter Allen ,

in this case the checker is very picky about spaces, means the charset has to be written without space before and after the equal sign, like so:

<meta charset="utf-8">  

that way the code will pass just fine and you can continue on with the challenge. hope that helps you out ;)