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HTML

Posted by Zachary Dalzell
Zachary Dalzell
3,236 Points

Code Challenge: HTML Tables

I'm trying to do the code challenge for the HTML Tables section. Can anyone tell me why this code won't let me pass the current step?

I'm being asked to create a table heading for the table. Here is my code:

<table border="1"> 
   <tr> 
     <th>Heading tag</th>
     <th>Heading tag 2</th>
   </tr>
 </table>

Shouldn't this be working?

faranaway
faranaway
Courses Plus Student 13,885 Points

you are suppose to use "thead" and not "th". :)

Michael O'Malley
Michael O'Malley
4,293 Points

Haha, wow. I'll just back away from this one.

2 Answers

faranaway
faranaway
Courses Plus Student 13,885 Points

The proper tag that is being asked for is <thead > </thead >

Zachary Dalzell
Zachary Dalzell
3,236 Points

You're right, thank you. I'm not sure why I had to use that, since I don't think it was touched on at all in the lessons (that I recall, nor is it in any of the code), but it works!

Michael O'Malley
Michael O'Malley
4,293 Points

I went back and watched the Headers and Footers video. Nick does explain that it's for the sake of Screen Readers, Search Engines, and allow for easier customization through CSS (although he does comment that it's mostly for semantics).

Zachary Dalzell
Zachary Dalzell
3,236 Points

Did he? Shoot I totally missed it, that's what happens at 1AM, oops! Thanks for the help though!

Michael O'Malley
Michael O'Malley
4,293 Points
Michael O'Malley
Michael O'Malley
4,293 Points

That appears correct. I went back and attempted to redo that Code Challenge and I'm hitting the same wall (even when copying code straight from W3C).

Zachary Dalzell
Zachary Dalzell
3,236 Points

I tried copy and pasting the exact code from the lessons that were taught in that section and they are failing. It seems that there is an error. At least I know now that it isn't me (at least pretty sure).

Michael O'Malley
Michael O'Malley
4,293 Points

I don't think it's you, but that's only because I don't want to think I'm choking up on basic HTML too. :P

Zachary Dalzell
Zachary Dalzell
3,236 Points

Apparently I have to use "thead" instead of "th".

Michael O'Malley
Michael O'Malley
4,293 Points

I guess I must have done that my first time through, but going back and redoing it, I interpreted add a table header as <th> (which creates a table header).