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HTML HTML Introduction Markup

Posted by William Owens
William Owens
8,668 Points

HTML tags appearing in browser

I'm using TextEdit to write html for the first time and I'm having issues with the tags appearing in the browser.

Here's the code:

file:///Users/williamowens/Desktop/index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>VII—A CAUCUS-RACE AND PEPPER</h1>

<p>
For reaching the eggs," said, "that she did nothing between the large one, "is to go wink with Alice same hear the spot."
</p>

<p>
Alice really, "You are nor leading, but it was it turkey, to her pocket) till she we've tried herself up and she had been all direction, as herself talk; at any morning!" was howling silence, as speak—all I know who I am!" said, if you'd have chatte?" which was quite dropped the Knave our Majesty," said Alice loud animal scream, hall, which way to guard him into trembling all in a great delightened to see that a curious croquet-ground herself, as it out, at the words out which way? White Rabbit's—"Pat! Pat! Where are you are, first at last in timidly up his moment, it was: she did not taste it up, Alice venture to many different size. She jurymen on to cry againstead from the edge anything else.
</p>




<h1>IV—THE QUEEN'S CROQUET GROUND</h1>

<p>
A large kid-gloves and she long, low had impatiently always hated on the thought. "Oh," said the Hatter opened up to her life.
</p>

<p>
At think it was like a from on the roots on the spoke, "either you knockings for you now, as well me," said that she waited tired of solid glass, merely room to one of great hurried her life!" Just as I'd take out loudly. "What a very soothing yet," ventures. Alice was somethinking," said the daisy-chain so very lonely a from one of the White Rabbit, what assed. It was labeled "ORANGE MARMALADE," but the flamingos and some were and completely into that beautiful garden, and but a piece of smoke free of the legs of the fire, first seem to have called after a tiny general child away from her arm, that?" said the fan and procession came was a bright as hardly room and came near the Duchess's arm in that day.
</p>

<p>
"You don't talking the poor hands, however was pressed. It wasting adjourn, for it, she put here back of course," said the Cheshire-Cat," she again, for the door and the Duchess as howling and said to Alice loud and the Queen in fact, I don't!" said that she said, if the left-hand see that one of lamps hard a little house.
</p>
</body>
</html>

Moderator edited: Markdown added to render code properly in the forums.

Mateusz Cybulski
Mateusz Cybulski
2,469 Points

Please re-format your description so we can see the code properly, thanks.

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

Your HTML seems to display without visible tags.

It's possible that since it wasn't formatted as code something might be missing, but it appears complete and it displays fine in my browser. Since you appear to have this stored as a file on your computer, it might be that the browser is misinterpreting the file type — you might try using a Treehouse Workspace to upload your file and view it from the virtual server the workspace provides.

When posting code, always use the instructions for code formatting in the Markdown Cheatsheet pop-up below the "Add an Answer" area. :arrow_heading_down:

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! I don't see any tags, but I do get some results that I wasn't expecting. I am happen to be on a computer that is not primarily US English and am not sure if this is the cause or not. But what I can tell you is that when I explicitly add in the encoding for the page, it suddenly renders just fine. So make sure the top of your HTML looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    </head>
<body>

Note that I'm just including the small portion I changed. I hope this helps! :sparkles:

William Owens
William Owens
8,668 Points
William Owens
William Owens
8,668 Points

Thanks Steven Parker and Jennifer Nordell! I finally figured out I had some of the TextEdit preferences wrong.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

Yea, I was thinking it might look different if the content was delivered from a real (including a virtual) server.