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Invalid syntax on html?

Cooldude100

Cooldude100

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Hello, my name is Grayson. I am a beginner coder who is twelve years old. I took this code from a website:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE Html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

And it put out this error:
File "C:\Users\grays\OneDrive\Desktop\Test.html", line 1
<!DOCTYPE Html>
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
[Finished in 156ms]

I have a text editor called sublime. And anyone that says I don't need the doctype command, the terminal says I do. I wonder if i need to do anything in the windows terminal. Please help.
 
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Cooldude100 said:
Hello, my name is Grayson. I am a beginner coder who is twelve years old. I took this code from a website:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE Html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

And it put out this error:
File "C:\Users\grays\OneDrive\Desktop\Test.html", line 1
<!DOCTYPE Html>
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
[Finished in 156ms]

I have a text editor called sublime. And anyone that says I don't need the doctype command, the terminal says I do. I wonder if i need to do anything in the windows terminal. Please help.
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Hey there,
So I tested your code, and everything seems alright. Whether you have the DOCTYPE command or not is not important, but one thing to note: the "H" in that command should be lowercase, or at least it will convert to lowercase once you preview it in a browser.
 
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Antero360 said:
Hey there,
So I tested your code, and everything seems alright. Whether you have the DOCTYPE command or not is not important, but one thing to note: the "H" in that command should be lowercase, or at least it will convert to lowercase once you preview it in a browser.
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Thanks for the feedback. But i think something is wrong with sublime. If you know sublime than you would know you have to enter a certain program into the build system (the program you use is the program you work with) I was wondering. Does html run on anything?
 
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Cooldude100 said:
Thanks for the feedback. But i think something is wrong with sublime. If you know sublime than you would know you have to enter a certain program into the build system (the program you use is the program you work with) I was wondering. Does html run on anything?
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As far as I am aware of, html will only render on a browser. If you were to open up a terminal/command prompt/powershell... and request a website, you are going to get all the text from the requested page, including html tags. As far as text editors (like sublime, notepad++) you have to manually open up the browser and refresh every time you make a change, IDE (integrated development environment) (like visual studio) on the other hand, will open up the browser by default and will reflect your changes.
 
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Depending on the OS you are using (Mac , Linux or Windows) I prefer VS Code (Visual Studio Code) as it pairs up with Github and has more extensions available to it. Also, like @Antero360 stated, the H in HTML should be lowercase when declaring it in your !DOCTYPE statement. That could be the syntax error that your terminal is referring to.
 
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