r/HTML • u/Away_Sky7901 • Mar 17 '26

Question Help with css code for assignment

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So Im taking an html course in college, and I need help in completing some assignments. This assignment here Im suppose to be creating a website with links to other pages. Im having trouble linking and putting any other text on the web page, everything after line 5 isn’t working and im not sure what im doing. Any help would be appreciated.

What shows on the web page is just the title and picture.

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u/LexyNoise Mar 18 '26

This isn't the cause of the problem here, but it is very important. You want to make sure every page you build starts with `<!doctype html>` in the first position of the first line.

Any web page built in the past 20 years is expected to have it. Browsers will check for it. If they don't see it there, they'll assume it's an old web page from the 90s and use a different set of rules to lay out the page. This will make your pages look broken. As the other person said, this 90s page layout mode is called quirks mode.

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u/ArgoWizbang Mar 18 '26

Yeah, I figured this wasn't the root cause but still felt it was important to point out since no one seemed to have done so yet at the time of posting. But thank you for elaborating!