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CSS CSS Layout Basics Getting Started with CSS Layout Layout Wrapper Challenge

My closing </div> tag isn't working?

I closed the <div class="container"> just before the end of the body section, but it's telling me it's wrong?

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Getting Started with CSS Layout</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
    <body>
    <div class="container">
        <header>
            <h1>Best City Guide</h1>
        </header>

        <div class="main">
            <h2>Welcome!</h2>
            <p>Dessert toffee chocolate lollipop fruitcake cake sweet. Pudding cotton candy chocolate pudding liquorice jelly marzipan. Muffin gummies topping lollipop. Caramels chocolate cake donut liquorice.</p>
            <p>Cake sesame snaps sweet tart candy canes tiramisu I love oat cake chocolate bar. Jelly beans pastry brownie sugar plum pastry bear claw tiramisu tootsie roll.</p>
        </div>

        <footer>
            <p>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City.</p>
        <footer>
    </div>

    </body>
</html>
style.css
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Your div tags are OK, but somehow the closing </footer> tag got changed into an additional starting tag.

Antti Lylander
Antti Lylander
9,686 Points

You have accidentally removed / so that footer is not closed properly