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HTML How to Make a Website HTML First Use HTML Elements

Posted by Numair Khan
Numair Khan
3,210 Points

stuck on html code calling the character and "utf-8"

I can't remember how to add the character in the meta section of my html code please help:) Best Regards

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
  <meta char = utf-8>
  </head>
    <body>

    </body>
</html>

2 Answers

William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

here's how to set the character set. the correct keyword is charset, not char. "utf-8" with quotation mark, and leaves no space before or after the assignment operator.

<meta charset="utf-8">

hope it helps.

Numair Khan
Numair Khan
3,210 Points
Numair Khan
Numair Khan
3,210 Points

Thank alot, I seem to be sort of in that "still getting used to" stage in html. Because so far I have been only doing python in my programming carreer. But thanks alot Best Regards:)