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

Posted by Jason Peay
Jason Peay
16,515 Points

Code Challenge

I'm stuck on a code challenge that asks me to link each of the three list items. Portfolio should go "index.html," About should go to "about.html," and Contact should go to "contact.html." How do I link each of my three list items?

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>
      <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>
          <li>Portfolio</li>
          <li>About</li>
          <li>Contact</li>
          <ul>
          </nav>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Shawn Ramsey
Shawn Ramsey
27,237 Points
Shawn Ramsey
Shawn Ramsey
27,237 Points

The code you wrote is correct except that you need to remove the last three list items that have no links.

4 Answers

Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,319 Points
Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,319 Points

remove these lines because they will just ruin your nav and add extra lines:

<li>Portfolio</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>

because the first three lines are enough:

<li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
jcorum
jcorum
71,814 Points
jcorum
jcorum
71,814 Points

Jason, you have all the pieces. It's just that you need to have only 3 list items, not 6, and the 3 need to be links:

        <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>
Jeff Chabot
Jeff Chabot
5,727 Points
Jeff Chabot
Jeff Chabot
5,727 Points

Note for students: Be sure to put in new code after entire a href code. Not just the first line. So, after the closing </a>

A note for the developers: Getting this error a lot during exercise:

There was a communication problem.

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Jeff Chabot
Jeff Chabot
5,727 Points
Jeff Chabot
Jeff Chabot
5,727 Points

Jason, by the way you are not closing your list items.