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

Tremayne Clinton
Tremayne Clinton
5,417 Points
Posted by Tremayne Clinton
Tremayne Clinton
5,417 Points

having problems with this challenge task 3 the code is adding dots making seem like i have 6 in the list not 3

making it look like this

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>
          <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>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Micah Headdings
Micah Headdings
3,701 Points
Micah Headdings
Micah Headdings
3,701 Points

Hey Tremayne!

It looks like you need to fix your closing tags for your list items. To fix it, make sure you open and close them like this

<li>Portfolio</li>

When you forget the forward slash "/", they will be treated as new list items, thus more bullet points. :-)

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi,

As Micah has mentioned you look to be missing the slash from the closing li.

On top of that I noticed that you have the nav and ul inside another nav and ul. You won't need this.

For example, you currently have:

    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav><!-- Extra tag not required -->
        <ul><!-- Extra tag not required -->
          <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>
        </ul><!-- Extra tag not required -->
      </nav><!-- Extra tag not required -->
    </header>

You could try changing it to this:

    <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>
      </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>

Hope that helps :)

-Rich