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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Organize with Unordered Lists

Posted by Neil Vastine
Neil Vastine
554 Points

Challenge not working

I don't understand why this Challenge isn't working.

<!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>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <section>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <a>
            <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a>
            <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop</p>
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a>
            <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows.</p>
          </a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Nick Nish
Nick Nish
7,304 Points
Nick Nish
Nick Nish
7,304 Points

Hey @Neil can you enter in the code after putting three ``` (dashes)? We can't see how the code was laid out if you only copy and paste it into the forums.

Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Neil Vastine, like Nick Nish said, you need to use 3 "back-tick" characters -- ``` -- to show HTML, CSS or programming code int he forum. This forum post explains it: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/posting-code-to-the-forum

Neil Vastine
Neil Vastine
554 Points

First post, Thanks for the link Dave

3 Answers

Nick Nish
Nick Nish
7,304 Points
Nick Nish
Nick Nish
7,304 Points

Hey Neil Vastine

Sorry it took me a moment, I had to go to the challenges themselves to see what went wrong because technically your code is totally fine.

It seems the challenge asked for you to enter in 3 imgs inside the li tags, with an empty alt attribute. It didn't however ask you to surround the images with <a> tags. Try removing those and see if that works.

Dave McFarland
STAFF
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

You only need to put the <img> tags inside the <li> tags. Leave out the <a> and <p> tags.

Neil Vastine
Neil Vastine
554 Points
Neil Vastine
Neil Vastine
554 Points

Worked great after removing <a> tags, unsure why it'd be so sensitive to having those tags put in place. Thanks for the help!