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HTML HTML Basics Getting Started with HTML Lists and Links Challenge

Posted by Maggie Patterson
Maggie Patterson
954 Points

Can't get past this question. What am I doing wrong?

My code is attached. I can't seems to find what I'm missing. But it keeps coming back saying "Bummer! You need to set the 'href' attribute of the second <a> element to 'pies.html'. Is that not what I have done?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lists and Links</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <ul>
      <a href="cakes.html"><li>Cakes</li></a>
      <a href="pies.html"><li>Pies</li></a>
      <a href="candy.html"><li>Candy</li></a>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Frederic Ronaldi
Frederic Ronaldi
13,732 Points
Frederic Ronaldi
Frederic Ronaldi
13,732 Points

Hi, you should declare the li tags first then insert the anchor tags to them. So your code should look like this :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lists and Links</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="cakes.html">Cakes</a></li>
      <li><a href="pies.html">Pies</a></li>
      <li><a href="candy.html">Candy</a></li>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>
Shay Paustovsky
Shay Paustovsky
969 Points
Shay Paustovsky
Shay Paustovsky
969 Points

Hi Maggie,

The <a> tags are not descendents of the <ul> element and although you're still closing the </li> but not opening it. The <a> tags should be nested inside the <li></li> tags which markup A list item in an un-ordered or ordered lists.

<ul>
  <li><a href="cakes.html"</a></li>
</ul>

This is an example...

Hope this helps,

Happy Coding