HTML meta charset
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HTML documents require a proper character encoding to ensure that text is correctly displayed in the browser. The most commonly used character encoding is UTF-8. To specify this in your HTML document, you will use a
<meta> tag inside the <head> section. This tag informs the browser how to interpret the characters in your HTML.<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
</body>
</html>The
<meta charset="UTF-8"> declaration should always be the first element inside the <head> tag to ensure proper encoding. Importantly, using UTF-8 allows support for a wide range of characters, including special characters, symbols, and languages such as Arabic, Chinese, and many more.<meta charset="UTF-8">It is generally recommended to specify the character set in your HTML documents, as it can prevent issues related to text rendering and data corruption in the browser. Not specifying the charset might lead the browser to use a default charset, which can result in incorrect display of text.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">