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Francis Dumas
Francis Dumas

Reputation: 45

Does it make sens to put a (meta charset="") element in a (title) element?

I'm going through the HTML beginner guide in the webplatform.org website and at (the HTML <head>) page in the (Setting your document's character encoding) section i'm not sure I understand that sentence:

It is, however, important to understand that just putting (meta charset="utf-8") in your title element doesn't magically convert your page to a UTF-8 encoding.

Do they mean, in your head element?

link to the page section

Upvotes: 0

Views: 97

Answers (1)

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201728

Yes, they mean the head element. That’s the only context where a meta tag for character encoding may validly appear. And a title element can contain only text, no tags.

Upvotes: 1

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