2 questions about HTML5 markup

HTML & CSS
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  1. Is it enough to have only the new HTML5 <meta charset="UTF-8"> or should I also add the old one (in case older browsers don’t understand it or something? <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

  2. Where is it best to put the new <nav> tag for the main menu of the site? inside the header tag or right after it?

Thanks.

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  1. TL;DR you can use HTML5 - https://code.google.com/p/doctype-mirror/wiki/MetaCharsetAttribute
  2. Doesn’t matter.
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  1. TL;DR you can use HTML5 - https://code.google.com/p/doctype-mirror/wiki/MetaCharsetAttribute

Thanks, so according to this using only <meta charset="UTF-8"> should be enough.

About the 2nd question, I know it doesn’t matter where to put the elements, but I want to know for example how to make them look importnat by web crawlers, for example if putting the nav inside the header tag will make it look more important.

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AFAIK it doesn’t matter. I couldn’t find anything on google to say that it DOES make a difference. It’s hard ot prove what matters/does not matter when it comes to SEO.

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Ok, thanks for the answers :smile:

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This is a standard opening to an HTML file these days that works everywhere:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
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