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Matthew Edey
4,238 PointsChallenge Task Add an Empty Unordered List
So I'm on the 3rd question for the Image and List challenge, and it's asking to add an empty and unordered list. I'm not sure what "empty" means, but I've tried doing what exactly was done in the video and it keeps saying to use the ul tags. They are there, but I'm not exactly sure what it wants.
4 Answers
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherHello Matthew,
I believe you'll need to add the empty, unordered list like so.
<ul>
</ul>
All together you have this.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Smells Like Bakin' Cupcake Company</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="img/cupcake.jpg" />
<ul>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
I hope this helps.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsHave you tried something like?
<ul>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ul>
Do you have the link to the code challenge. I'm just guessing here.
Matthew Edey
4,238 PointsI have, it did not work. the link is here: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-simple-website/text-editors-and-html/images-and-lists
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherIf you have a DropBox or SkyDrive account simply put the image there and create a public link. Then fill in the Markdown syntax or just post the link to the image here.
Matthew Edey
4,238 Points
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherThank you for sharing that! It appears the img tag has not been closed. It should look like this.
<img src="img/cupcake.jpg" />
<ul>
</ul>
Matthew Edey
4,238 PointsI'll try it. It's funny, I did that on the image part of the test on the previous question and it rejects it if you have it...
Matthew Edey
4,238 PointsBut that was it! Thanks!!!
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou're welcome! Glad I could help.
Matthew Edey
4,238 PointsAnd at this point, I'm just going to post a screen shot for every question I can... I worked in ecommerce for 2 years, and every tech or web issue, all the it guys were always "take a screen shot" so I should know better. lol
James Barnett
39,199 PointsPosting screen shots of code that is more than a few lines isn't very helpful. What you should do instead is to post a "working" demo using something like codepen
Joseph Laskowski
2,003 PointsI ran into this issue as well, working from the example on the video viewed for "Build a simple website" the image coded in the video did not have a "/>" to close the tag, also when adding the image in question 2 it was accepted without the closing tag, hence the confusion on question 3 where no clue was given that the issue was not with the ul tag instead of the image tag. Lol I know I had the "ul" tags correct, the continued "Bummer" message was frustrating until I found this thread. Thanks for the help!
James Barnett
39,199 PointsIt's best to think of these as hints rather than pointing to a particular issue. If your code fails the code challenge, then you just need to look back at your code and start debugging.
This thread offers some great perspective on debugging in the code challenges.
Matthew Edey
4,238 PointsMatthew Edey
4,238 PointsI tried that and it didn't accept it. It's still saying I'm not using the ul tag when I do that.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsKevin Korte
28,149 PointsThis is correct. You need to enter those two tags below where you entered the image
Justin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherJustin Horner
Treehouse Guest TeacherI updated my answer to include the HTML document that will pass.
Matthew Edey
4,238 PointsMatthew Edey
4,238 PointsI have mine looking exactly like that, but it's not passing.
Matthew Edey
4,238 PointsMatthew Edey
4,238 PointsI took a screen shot but apparently I need a lesson in figuring out how to post that, not sure what it means in the Markdown Cheetsheet to post an image.