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Tabrez Ahmad
Tabrez Ahmad
1,822 Points
Posted by Tabrez Ahmad
Tabrez Ahmad
1,822 Points

Listed Items

I've just started with Treehouse and one of the first exercises was adding an unordered list item to the menu. This was the following code I wrote:

<ul class="nav">
<li><a href="#"> About </a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Cupcakes & Prices </a></li>
<li><a href="#"> Locations </a></li>
<li class="last"><a href="#"> Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>

Everything is completely clear to me, except for one part. In line 5, <li class="last">, must you always specify the last item in a list? If yes, why does this need to be a class?

Thanks in advance! :)

1 Answer

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points
Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

You do not need to specify the last item in a unordered list. You simply need to : 

<ul>
    <li>about</li>
    <li>cupcakes & prices</li>
    <li>locations</li>
    <li>contact us</li>
</ul>

Hope this helps.

Tabrez Ahmad
Tabrez Ahmad
1,822 Points
Tabrez Ahmad
Tabrez Ahmad
1,822 Points

Thanks for the reply Andrew.

I just realised I never formatted my code correctly there. I've inserted it now according to how the tutorial instructed.

So, I get what you're saying, but I don't understand why the video instructs the user (pupil?) to enter:

<li class="last">

I understand the nav class though.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points
Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Oh, well its been awhile since I took that course, but my guess is that if you look in the CSS file you will see that anything with class of last doesn't have a right margin. This helps to prevent the last item in a list from being pushed down a row vertically.

Tabrez Ahmad
Tabrez Ahmad
1,822 Points
Tabrez Ahmad
Tabrez Ahmad
1,822 Points

Ah! That makes sense. Thanks for that. I'm still part-way through this first stage so I'm sure he'll explain in detail later.