HTML & CSS Do you include <meta charset="utf-8"> in your html doc?

[gothictrade]

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i read that its not necessary as most browsers will recognize it automatically? im not sure.
i was wondering if you choose to include or not~

 

[Malcolm]

I don’t usually add it. But that could be because I’m not all too sure it’s importance probably.

 

[Tealk]

To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know the character set used in the page.

HTML Charset

To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know which character set to use.

www.w3schools.com

 

[Malcolm]

HTML Charset

To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know which character set to use.

www.w3schools.com

Does the browser automatically do this?

 

[Tealk]

Does the browser automatically do this?

I don't understand your question.

 

[Malcolm]

I don't understand your question.

I mean is required to add this? Because I’ve never added this and never got any problems.

 

[Tealk]

I never left it out, when w3 writes this as a recommendation, I just follow it.
Besides it can't do any harm.

 

[Malcolm]

So I did a bit of research into this. Because most mordern browsers do this by default. You don’t need to add it in. However, it is good practice to do so.

The charset = utf-8 let’s you write in all different languages which may have different characters to our English language. Otherwise, you may witness things such as a box with a question mark in it etc.

 

[Malcolm]

@gothictrade have you found the answer you were looking for?