character encoding of a framed document was not declared

firefox character-encoding document declare
Philip picture Philip · Nov 21, 2012 · Viewed 21.1k times · Source

I get this warning in FF when developing a site of mine. I can't find any real info about it and how to fix this.

the character encoding of a framed document was not declared. The document may appear different if viewed without the document framing it.


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jquery....min.js (line 4)

Answer

Adrian picture Adrian · Dec 7, 2012

You need to put

<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

In the head of the iframe or whatever charset encoding you are using.

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