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HTML HTML Basics Getting Started with HTML Headings and Paragraphs Challenge

Posted by ohisa ongor
ohisa ongor
1,021 Points

A level 2 heading element

what am I doing wrong in setting a level 2 heading element?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <title>Headings and Paragraphs</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>This is the Main Headline!</h1>  
    <p>Oat cake chocolate bar jelly.</P> 
  <p>Tootsie roll cheesecake sweet gummies candy cookie pudding cotton candy carrot cake.</p> 
  <p.Souffl&eacute; caramels brownie oat cake cheesecake.</p>

  <h2>A Level 2 Heading Element!</h2> 
  <p>Ice cream candy canes muffin icing pudding muffin jelly topping carrot cake.</p> 
  <p>I love gingerbread dessert jujubes bonbon cupcake tootsie roll I love.</p> 
  <p>Oat cake topping caramels I love cupcake oat cake chocolate topping donut.</p>

    Level 3 Heading
    Cotton candy topping halvah sugar plum gummies souffl&eacute;. Ice cream danish donut sugar plum. Macaroon carrot cake gummies. Caramels oat cake chocolate cake.
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,735 Points

The issue is actually with the <p> tags. One of the opening <p> tags has a period where there should be a closing angle bracket >. (The closing </p> tag on that tag has some red dotted underline in the Treehouse challenge editor, which is a clue that something might not be right in the matching half of this pair of tags.)

Also, this challenge seems to be picky with wanting you to wrap larger sections in one big paragraph, rather than multiple smaller <p> tags. Try consolidating the groups into one larger paragraph. It's not a big deal, but breaking it into multiple <p> tags does force these sections to have visual line breaks when it renders where we might not want them (see the "Preview" tab).

So even though the error is about the headings, it's actually about the paragraphs. Sometimes the error messages in Treehouse challenges leave something to be desired.