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Jamil Jones
10,852 PointsAdding an Nested ordered list to an unordered list
This exercise keeps saying this is wrong. What am I missing
<ul>
<li>Fruit</li>
<ol>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Apples</li>
</ol>
<li>Vegetables</li>
</ul>
Please Help, what am I doing wrong
8 Answers

James Barnett
39,199 PointsThe only valid tags to put inside an ul
is an li
.
So if you want to nest a ol
inside of an ul
then you need to first nest it inside of an li
, like so ...
<ul>
<li>Shapes</li>
<li>
<ol>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Colors</li>
</ul>

Roger Penguino
1,514 PointsFound the answer here as well http://teamtreehouse.com/forum/nested-ordered-list-html-list-challenge
Trick is in the reading the instructions carefully, nest INSIDE the Shapes list item.
<li>Shapes
<ol>
<li></li>
</ol>
</li>

Sam Bass
9,038 PointsThank You! :)

abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
Courses Plus Student 4,478 Pointsu could try
<ul> <ol> </ol> </ul>
or the other way around..

James Barnett
39,199 PointsThe key to nested lists to to remember the only valid child of an ul
or an ol
is an li
.
@Jamil - Let us know, if you need anymore help.

Jamil Jones
10,852 PointsStill saying its wrong
Instructions: Add a nested ordered list to the "Shapes" list item.
Code I put in:
!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>HTML Lists Challenge</title> </head> <body>
<h1>HTML Lists Challenge</h1>
<ol> <li>Stop</li> <li>Drop</li> <li>Roll</li> </ol>
<ul>
<li>Shapes</li>
<ol>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ol>
<li>Colors</li>
</ul>
</body> </html>
Results: HTML Lists Challenge
Stop Drop Roll
Shapes 1. 2. 3. Colors
Help!!! What am I doing wrong

Cristiane Marques
1,780 PointsJamil Jones,
Your example will work if you add the missing <li></li>tags. The first <li> should come first than the <ol> and the closing </li> after the </ol>. Look at James Barnett's example. It's perfect! It was indeed covered by Nick Pettit on the video "Ordered and Unordered Lists".
Good Luck!

Carl Rose
337 PointsHere's the answer:
<ul> <li>Shapes <ol></ol> </li> <li>Colors</li> </ul>

Gagandeep Virk
19,741 PointsI have found it the solution Here it is......... <ul> <li>Shapes <ol><li>This is new nested list</li></ol></li> <li>Colors</li> </ul>
Daniel Luke
Courses Plus Student 7,151 PointsDaniel Luke
Courses Plus Student 7,151 PointsI can't get this to work, and I've spent a long time on this task. It should have been explicitly mentioned in the Petit's video that the only valid tag that can go in a ul tag is an li tag (even though in your example an ol tag IS inside a ul tag but only after another li tag. I honestly don't know how Treehouse expects us to perform a task that wasn't covered in one of the videos. This should be very simple, and I should have watched at least eight other videos by now. At this point I'm tired of guessing and would appreciate some very, very explicit help. I realize that you are opposed to giving the solution (for some didactic reason that I personally believe is quite antiquated). PLEASE HELP. Your code above did not. I tried it, and it was of absolutely no help even with plenty of further guesses and modification. Eager to get back to learning...
Daniel Luke
Courses Plus Student 7,151 PointsDaniel Luke
Courses Plus Student 7,151 PointsI can't get this to work, and I've spent a long time on this task. It should have been explicitly mentioned in the Petit's video that the only valid tag that can go in a ul tag is an li tag (even though in your example an ol tag IS inside a ul tag but only after another li tag. I honestly don't know how Treehouse expects us to perform a task that wasn't covered in one of the videos. This should be very simple, and I should have watched at least eight other videos by now. At this point I'm tired of guessing and would appreciate some very, very explicit help. I realize that you are opposed to giving the solution (for some didactic reason that I personally believe is quite antiquated). PLEASE HELP. Your code above did not. I tried it, and it was of absolutely no help even with plenty of further guesses and modification. Eager to get back to learning...
James Barnett
39,199 PointsJames Barnett
39,199 Points>
I honestly don't know how Treehouse expects us to perform a task that wasn't covered in one of the videos.It's been a while since I watched that video so I was curious to see what Nick Pettit actually demo'ed in the video, at about time index 3:48 Nick shows you an example of a correctly nested list.
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherNick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherHi Daniel Luke,
Sorry that you're having trouble. Coding can be frustrating at first, but we're here to help. Can you please post your code in the forum? This will help people identify what type of issue you're experiencing. Thanks!