I often see this:
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Title</title>
...
</head>
Is it important to put the chartset definition BEFORE the the title tag?
Thanks!
yes it is, see https://code.google.com/p/doctype-mirror/wiki/MetaCharsetAttribute
In order for all browsers to recognize a <meta charset> declaration,
it must be
Within the <head> element,
Before any elements that contain text, such as the <title> element, AND
Within the first 512 bytes of your document, including DOCTYPE and whitespace
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I'm just trying to post a simple html file consisting mainly of some prose I wrote inside of <pre> elements.
Interestingly, when I view the file on my computer with my browser, the quotation marks display fine. But when I upload it to my website, quotation marks are rendered as something like “ or â€. I have looked around the web for solutions but they were few and in between.
I tried to use the meta tag and included
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="utf-8" />
to my header but to no avail. Any ideas on how to solve this? It just wouldn't make sense to go back to the content inside the elements and code it into html as the prose is a draft and will go through many changes in the future.
The <!doctype html> tag indicates the file is HTML5 - so the browser will render it as such. lang="en" should be set to the language you are working with. Be sure to use the <meta charset="utf-8"> tag to set the character set in the <head>
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Template</title>
</head>
<body>
<pre>This is my stuff</pre>
</body>
</html>
Check your code with the browser's View Source and use the Validator at https://validator.w3.org/ to check the page.
Here what I tried.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<pre>Einstein said,"Once you stop learning, you start dying"</pre>
</body>
</html>
I also tried only this
<body>
<pre>Einstein said,"Once you stop learning, you start dying"</pre>
</body>
Still working
I am curious about the relationship between DOCTYPE and charset in an HTML 5 file.
Using the default HTML template in VSCode produces the following markup:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>Page Title</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="main.css" />
<script src="main.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
My question is, do we need both DOCTYPE and charset?
If the doctype is set to html (which refers to HTML 5), and we know that utf-8 is the default charset for HTML 5, do we have to specify the charset using the meta tag or does the browser know?
My question is, do we need both DOCTYPE and charset?
Yes
If the doctype is set to html (which refers to HTML 5), and we know that utf-8 is the default charset for that doctype
It isn't. Browsers perform complex sniffing to determine the character encoding. Specifying it explicitly is more reliable.
It is a good rule to prepare your website for most browsers and platforms.
The use of both will garantee that most technologies can read all they need to represente your site.
So yes... rule of thumb.... always add default preferences in your code, just in case.
Best regards.
The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration is used to inform a website visitor's browser that the document being rendered is an HTML document.
<!DOCTYPE html> is doctype of html 5.
#charset specifies the character encoding used in the style sheet, and <meta charset="utf-8" /> specifies the encoding for the HTML document
I need to force IE9 to use its standards mode, and have the following HTML:
<!doctype html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9">
Is it correct to have the <meta charset="utf-8"> tag appear before the X-UA-Compatible tag?
The X-UA-Compatible header isn't case sensitive; however, it must appear in the header of the webpage (the HEAD section) before all other elements except for the title element and other meta elements.
Source: Specifying Legacy Document Modes
I'm getting an HTML validation error for the following line, I'm not sure where I should specify my charset if I don't do it within the meta tag.
Line 5, Column 70: Attribute charset not allowed on element meta at this point.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset="utf-8"/>
This is because you put it in a Content-type meta tag, this is not allowed.
simply make a seperate meta tag, e.g.
<meta charset="utf-8" />
this should validate for you.
Yes. You should use as this is recommended in html5 and it is a new recommendation.
Below is a simple html5 layout:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>
<body>
Content of the document......
</body>
</html>
So my question is about which meta tags are placed before the title tag when set in the head tag in html with doctype 4.01 Transitional.
Here I give an example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Index</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="whatsoever">
<meta name="description" content="ask stackoverflow">
<meta name="author" content="gugol">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/nicestyles.css">
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
I think I should have the charset attribute first so that everything in the html document is read under the character encoding for the HTML document. But have some doubts about the others.
What would be just the right order??
Modern browsers let you specify the character encoding in a meta tag so that it is applied even to elements preceding it. However, such a tag should appear as early as possible according to HTML 4.01, clause 5.2.2 Specifying the character encoding. HTML5 CR clarifies further, in clause 4.2.5.5 Specifying the document's character encoding, that “the element containing the character encoding declaration must be serialized completely within the first 1024 bytes of the document”.
The point here is that unless the encoding has been specified in HTTP headers or by data interpretable as Byte Order Mark at the start of a document, the browser will scan some initial part, such as one kilobyte, of the document, then infer or guess the encoding from it, tentatively parsing it as Ascii data and recognizing a meta tag if there is one.
Other than this, no order restrictions are placed on the content of a head element, and there is no reason to expect that the order of meta elements would matter.
There is no right order. Your title and meta tags can be in any order and the results will be the same.