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**Category:** Curriculum Help\
**Created:** [October 15, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612 "2023-10-15T18:11:05Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Fahim05](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Fahim05)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/1 "2023-10-15T18:11:05Z")
**Tell us what’s happening:**
Whats the issue with what ive done?
**Your code so far**
```html
```
**Your browser information:**
User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`
**Challenge:** Learn HTML Forms by Building a Registration Form - Step 1
**Link to the challenge:**
> **[freeCodeCamp.org](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/2022/responsive-web-design/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form/step-1)**
>
> Learn to Code — For Free
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**Author:**  [@igorgetmeabrain](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/igorgetmeabrain)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/2 "2023-10-15T18:13:21Z")
> Welcome to the Registration Form project! Start by adding the `!DOCTYPE html` declaration at the top of the document so the browser knows what type of document it’s reading.
You have added a single opening `html` tag, not a `DOCTYPE` declaration.
> **[HTML doctype declaration](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.ASP)**
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**Author:**  [@Fahim05](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Fahim05)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/3 "2023-10-20T11:24:25Z")
I added !DOCTYPE as well and it didnt work isit something like…
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**Author:**  [@anon42932716](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/anon42932716)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/4 "2023-10-20T11:31:28Z")
Hello @Fahim05!
I think it may be easier if you just copy and paste it from the instructions.
" Add the `` tag, and an `html` element with a `lang` attribute of `en`."
And, it is important to remember the htlm element below the with an opening and closing tag.
Example:
`
`
I hope this helps you continue on your coding journey.
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**Author:**  [@Fahim05](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Fahim05)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/5 "2023-10-20T11:21:22Z")
**Tell us what’s happening:**
Not sure what Im doing wrong?
**Your code so far**
```html
DOCTYPE
```
**Your browser information:**
User Agent is: `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`
**Challenge:** Learn HTML Forms by Building a Registration Form - Step 1
**Link to the challenge:**
> **[freeCodeCamp.org](https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/2022/responsive-web-design/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form/step-1)**
>
> Learn to Code — For Free
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**Author:**  [@anon86258595](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/anon86258595)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/6 "2023-10-20T11:29:06Z")
There is a syntax for declaring your doctype attribute:
Ex:
```auto
```
Your doctype attribute should have the value of `html` so the browser knows what type of file he is dealing with.
Hope this helps!
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**Author:**  [@Fahim05](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Fahim05)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/8 "2023-10-22T17:47:54Z")
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Tried it didnt work…
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**Author:**  [@igorgetmeabrain](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/igorgetmeabrain)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/9 "2023-10-22T17:51:49Z")
For this first step, you should only add a single line of code - the `DOCTYPE` declaration.
Look at the link which I posted above, which will show you exactly how this should look.
You should not be adding an `html` element or any other code in this first step.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/learn-html-forms-by-building-a-registration-form-step-1/644612/10 "2024-04-22T05:52:48Z")
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