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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Create Navigation with Lists

Posted by Eric Pittarelli
Eric Pittarelli
171 Points

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

On one of the quiz questions, it says to: Link each of the three list items. Portfolio should go to “index.html”, About should go to “about.html”, and Contact should go to “contact.html”

So I did the following:

<ul>
    <li><a href=”index.html”><a/></li>
    <li><a href=”about.html”><a/></li>
    <li><a href=”contact.html”><a/></li>
</ul>

...and it told me it is incorrect. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? Thx!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Erika Richards
Erika Richards
6,231 Points

Hi!!

at first glance I see that you are closing the anchor tag incorrectly here is the correction:

<ul> <li><a href="index.html"></a></li> <li><a href="about.html"></a></li> <li><a href="contact.html"></a></li> </ul>

I hope this helps!!!

3 Answers

Eric Pittarelli
Eric Pittarelli
171 Points
Eric Pittarelli
Eric Pittarelli
171 Points

So it should be as follows?

<ul> <li><a href=”index.html”><a/> <li><a href=”about.html”><a/> <li><a href=”contact.html”><a/> </ul>

Erika Richards
Erika Richards
6,231 Points

Hi Eric,

the closing anchor should be the following

<li><a href="index.html"></a></li> <li><a href="about.html"></a></li> <li><a href="contact.html"></a></li>

Rebecca Vonada
Rebecca Vonada
5,274 Points
Rebecca Vonada
Rebecca Vonada
5,274 Points

You've closed your links incorrectly; it should be:

</a>

not

<a/>

That should fix it up for you.

Eric Pittarelli
Eric Pittarelli
171 Points
Eric Pittarelli
Eric Pittarelli
171 Points

Got it! Thx!!! I had my "/" in the wrong place!