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HTML HTML Basics Going Further with HTML Working on a Website Project Locally

Jessica Hunter
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Jessica Hunter
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,097 Points
Posted by Jessica Hunter
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Jessica Hunter
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,097 Points

I changed the href from a root link, but it is still showing a list of files instead of navigating back to home.

From what I can see the code is the same as in the video:

  <li><a href="../../index.html">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../index.html#about">About</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../index.html#articles">Articles</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../index.html#contact">Contact</a></li>
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points
Sean T. Unwin
Sean T. Unwin
28,690 Points

A few basic questions to clarify:

You are:

  1. using the downloaded files or the Workspace and haven't moved any files within?
  2. editing article.html?
  3. saved article.html before viewing and refreshed the page?

3 Answers

Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
15,053 Points
Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
15,053 Points

You're treating it like you would do in the command line. But I believe in HTML, relative links require you to go from the perspective on the base domain. So if you're on index.html then to go to "about", you actually only need to have href be "#about", since that is an on-page anchor tag.

If you wanted to go to the about page that is another page, then if your site is example.com, you would put: href="about"

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

As far as I can tell your code matches the video. I copy/pasted it into the workspace for the video and the links navigated like they should. Can you post a snapshot of your workspace? It is the camera icon in the upper right corner.

Marin Brkic
Marin Brkic
1,200 Points
Marin Brkic
Marin Brkic
1,200 Points

I had the same problem. So I figured out i wrote #About in <nav> instead of #about and others too. If in main section is lowercase it has to be in <nav> too . " <main> <section id="about"> " .