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HTML5 Charset

  • By Alligator.io

    PostedAugust 19, 2016 200 views

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The first element after the opening <head> tag of your documents should be a <meta charset> tag to define the character set in use. The UTF-8 charset is the right choice for the modern web. Here’s the markup for it:

<meta charset="UTF-8">
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