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Brandon Battles
3,315 PointsCode Challenge - Introduction to jQuery
$(".error").show();
$("a").before(<span>This is a link:</span>);
Before every link add this HTML: <span>This is a link;</span>
I must be missing something, because with this markup it continues to return the error that Task 1 is no longer passing. Help, please.
5 Answers
Wade Christensen
Treehouse TeacherYou need to place your html inside quotation marks.
$("a").before('<span>This is a link: </span>');
Also, notice the space between the colon at the end of the word "link" and the </span>
smonneger
9,874 PointsHey Brandon,
<span>This is a link:</span> must be between double quotes:
```"<span>This is a link:</span>"
Louis Otto
23,264 PointsHi Sacha, that won't work, the quotations need to be outside of the <span> tags themselves
smonneger
9,874 PointsThx Louis, I noticed my mistake. I modified it :p
Louis Otto
23,264 PointsRemember to wrap in quotation marks, you're very close but you just need to wrap the <span> tags in " like this:
$("a").before("<span>This is a link: </span>");
Jonathan Davies
Courses Plus Student 4,765 Points$(".error").show(); $("a").before("<span>This is a link: </span>");
U have forgotten the "DOUBLE QUOTE" marks from the string in the before method.
Brandon Battles
3,315 PointsAwesome! Thank you all so much for your help!