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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Kela Chaiyont
Kela Chaiyont
104 Points

Body Elements

I am doing a challange. It is called add the head and body elements to the page and it is asking me to add a body element. I inserted everything I thought of. Could you tell me what is wrong?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Kela Chaiyont | Artist</title>
  </head>
  <body></body
</html>

3 Answers

Joel Hernandez
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Joel Hernandez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,571 Points

According to the code you posted you forgot to close the body syntax with a ">" character. Should look like this: 

<body></body>
gregory gordon
seal-mask
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
gregory gordon
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 14,652 Points
gregory gordon
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
gregory gordon
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 14,652 Points

< !DOCTYPE html> < html> < head> < meta charset="utf-8"> < title>Kela Chaiyont | Artist</title> < /head> < body></body > add a > here < /html>

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points 
<body> 
Just pretend it's like a sandwich. You have open and closing tag. 
</body>