Learn CSS Colors by Building a Set of Colored Markers - Step 5

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Tell us what’s happening:

Hi, I can’t figure out what I am doing wrong. I keep getting this message :
Sorry, your code does not pass. Keep trying.
Your two meta elements should be inside the head element.

This is my code :

Colored Markers

I have tried resetting the code, refreshing the browser and even copy-pasting someone else’s code into my assignment, but nothing works.

Your code so far

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<!-- User Editable Region -->

   <head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Colored Markers</title>
  </head>

<!-- User Editable Region -->

  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Safari/605.1.15

Challenge Information:

Learn CSS Colors by Building a Set of Colored Markers - Step 5

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Your solution works from my end. Please try one of the following steps to move forward.

Click on the “Restart Step” button and force a refresh of your page with CTRL + F5 then try to paste the code in again.

or - Try the step in incognito or private mode.

or - Disable any/all extensions that interface with the freeCodeCamp website (such as Dark Mode, Ad Blockers, or Spellcheckers), and set your browser zoom level to 100%. Both of these factors can cause tests to fail erroneously.

or - Ensure your browser is up-to-date or try a different browser.

I hope one of these will work for you.

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Thank you so much for trying to help me. I just tried all of that, and I even tried logging into someone else’s computer and doing the same thing, but it still won’t work.

It says that the problem is this : Your two meta' elements should be inside the head` element.

Just to double-check, my two meta elements are inside the head element, right?
They are on the line between this and this , that means that they are inside right?

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I tried the code you posted in the first post and it passes, so I am giving you ways that usually help. Alterantively you can just move to step 6, as this is not a certification project it will not affect your eligibility for the certification

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I didn’t realise that I could just skip it. I’ll just do that then.
Thank you, I appreciate your help.

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I had the same issue at this step. My mistake was that I had simply copied like the code from the instructions because I deleted it everything and added it in manually one by one and it allowed me to move to the next step. Also couldn’t understand what the issue since the code was just okay. All the best.

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Thank you for trying to help me, I really appreciate it. I just tried deleting the whole code and wrote it in manually, and unfortunately I still get this message : Your two meta elements should be inside the head element.
Maybe it’s not a problem that I can fix, maybe there is a problem with with the website?

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there is some incompatibility between the browser/device you are using and the freeCodeCamp site

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Might just have to skip then.