Display umlauts with HTML - this is how you activate UTF8

You have to activate UTF8 in the header of an HTML file if you want to write umlauts on your website by typing the character directly into the HTML editor.

Enable UTF-8 for umlauts in HTML - edit page header

Specify directly on your website which character encoding the file uses.

1. Enter a meta tag in the header of the HTML file (this is the area between the tags).
2. In this case, the meta tag refers to the character encoding.
3. Enter the following code: "" Note: Without the outer quotes!

With this specification, you no longer have to mask the umlauts with characters such as ä. We also compare the three best online HTML editors for you.