title: <!DOCTYPE html> - syntax error
body: <p>why in the world I'm a getting a syntax error from <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;</code>?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Portfolio&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="shapes.css"&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;div class="content"&gt;
          &lt;div class="header"&gt;
  
  
          &lt;/div&gt;
  
          &lt;div class="middle"&gt;
              &lt;div class="image"&gt;
  
              &lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;div class="text"&gt;
  
              &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Syntax error</p>
  
  <pre><code>  File "/Volumes/postergren_projectDrive/Projekt/programmingSandbox/Udacity/Intro to HTML and CSS/startBlock/portfolio/toplist/index.html", line 1
      &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
      ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  [Finished in 0.0s with exit code 1]
  [shell_cmd: "python" -u "/Volumes/postergren_projectDrive/Projekt/programmingSandbox/Udacity/Intro to HTML and CSS/startBlock/portfolio/toplist/index.html"]
  [dir: /Volumes/postergren_projectDrive/Projekt/programmingSandbox/Udacity/Intro to HTML and CSS/startBlock/portfolio/toplist]
  [path: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin]
  </code></pre>