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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Laura Delatorre
Laura Delatorre
172 Points

define html document root

help! this task is asking me to define the html root, what is it?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
       <meta charset=utf-8">
       <title>Laura Delatorre | Designer</title>
   </head>
   <body>                      
     <header>
        <h1>Laura Delatorre</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
     </header>
     <section>
       <p>Gallery will go there. </p>  
     </section>
     <footer></footer>
     </body>

2 Answers

Nate Conley
Nate Conley
16,191 Points
Nate Conley
Nate Conley
16,191 Points

You are missing the closing html tag </html>

Laura Delatorre
Laura Delatorre
172 Points

Ok thanks for the clarification

Cindy Lea
PLUS
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points
Cindy Lea
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points

I think you are trying to do more than what is being asked. When it comes to the challenges they do not want extra stuff or you will get it wrong. I had to guess on this due to the HTML ROOT wording, but I got the answer right so I can explain. The <HTML></HTML> tages must represent the ROOT. or the language we are establishing.

Heres what your code should look like for this step of the challenge:

<!DOCTYPE html> <HTML></HTML>

Laura Delatorre
Laura Delatorre
172 Points

Thanks for the help :)