I often see this: <pre class="prettyprint"><code><head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Title</title> ... </head> </code></pre> Is it important to put the chartset definition BEFORE the the title tag? Thanks!

yes it is, see https://code.google.com/p/doctype-mirror/wiki/MetaCharsetAttribute <blockquote> In order for all browsers to recognize a <code><meta charset></code> declaration, it must be <ul> <li>Within the <code><head></code> element,</li> <li>Before any elements that contain text, such as the <code><title></code> element, AND</li> <li>Within the first 512 bytes of your document, including DOCTYPE and whitespace</li> </ul> </blockquote>

HTML5: Meta charset before title?

Tags:

html

I often see this:

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Title</title>
...
</head>

Is it important to put the chartset definition BEFORE the the title tag?

Thanks!

657

asked Jun 06 '15 11:06

WeekendCoder

1 Answers

yes it is, see https://code.google.com/p/doctype-mirror/wiki/MetaCharsetAttribute

In order for all browsers to recognize a <meta charset> declaration, it must be

Within the <head> element,

Before any elements that contain text, such as the <title> element, AND

Within the first 512 bytes of your document, including DOCTYPE and whitespace

133