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Posted by Dee Smith
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Dee Smith
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 30 Points

Coding help

I copied a section of code from a colleague. The codes reads as follows:

<a href="https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-html-css/lessons/common-elements/exercises/review-common-elements?action=lesson_resume"/> <target=blank"Starting Out"/a>
  <ul>
    <li>more employable</li>
    <li>More tech savvy</li>
    <li>And an all around better technician</li>
  </ul>
  <img=src"https://cdn.meme.am/instances/400x/37668122.jpg" alt=blank"Don't get stressed out!"/>

I keep receiving error messages saying "special characters must be escaped". Can anyone shed some light on this to me as to where the error is taking place?

Moderator Edited: Added Markdown to the code so it is readable in the Community. Please refer to the Markdown CheatSheet to see how to post a code snippet in the Community. :)

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Dee,

Two things:

  1. The = sign for img src is in the wrong place.
  2. The word "blank" after alt= is not needed and will cause an error. (Not sure why it's there, though?)
<img src="https://cdn.meme.am/instances/400x/37668122.jpg" alt="Don't get stressed out!"/>

Once I added the markdown, you can see by the syntax highlighting where the errors are. :)

Hope that helps. :dizzy:

Dee Smith
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Dee Smith
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 30 Points

This did help. Thanks!