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Posted by Luisa Langellotti
Luisa Langellotti
529 Points

Error in the unordered list

"Add the items "About", "Cupcakes", and "Locations" to the unordered list."

What's wrong?

<!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" alt="yummy cupcake">
    <ul class="nav">
      <li><a href="#">About</a><li>
      <li><a href="#">Cupcakes</a><li>
      <li><a href="#">Locations</a><li>
    </ul>

  </body>
</html>
Larry Goodhue
Larry Goodhue
4,246 Points
Larry Goodhue
Larry Goodhue
4,246 Points

Like this:

<ul>
<li>About</li>
<li>Cupcakes</li>
<li>Locations</li>

I also believe you're supposed to add the anchor tag right after each <li>.

Larry Goodhue
Larry Goodhue
4,246 Points
Larry Goodhue
Larry Goodhue
4,246 Points

Oh, and you're also supposed to end the <ul> tag with </ul>.

Larry Goodhue
Larry Goodhue
4,246 Points
Larry Goodhue
Larry Goodhue
4,246 Points

Grrr. Like this: 

<li><a href="#">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#"Cupcakes</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Locations</a></li> 
</ul>

7 Answers

Pablo Litardo
Pablo Litardo
6,241 Points
Pablo Litardo
Pablo Litardo
6,241 Points

Can you write in, how your typing the code.

Because unordered lists works like this'

<ul>
<li> About </li>
<li> Cupcakes </li> 
<li> Locations </li>
</ul>
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Luisa Langellotti - The code challenge is asking you to create a list item with just the text, it doesn't mention anything about making that text a link. If you drop the <a> element from each of them you should be good to go.

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Luisa,

We need some code here.

Jeff

Luisa Langellotti
Luisa Langellotti
529 Points
Luisa Langellotti
Luisa Langellotti
529 Points

I'm feeling reeeeally dumb

Luisa Langellotti
Luisa Langellotti
529 Points
Luisa Langellotti
Luisa Langellotti
529 Points

<!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" alt="yummy cupcake"> <ul class="nav"> <li><a href="#">About</a><li> <li><a href="#">Cupcakes</a><li> <li><a href="#">Locations</a><li> </ul>

</body> </html>

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Luisa Langellotti -

I edited your original post to fix the formatting on your code using markdown. To learn more about markdown check out this thread on how to type code in the forum for some examples.