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!
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possible duplicate of [In , which comes first: or
?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5572471/in-head-which-comes-first-meta-or-title) – Nick Bartlett Jun 06 '15 at 12:10
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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
