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Posted by Presley Connor
Presley Connor
944 Points

My footer keeps adding letters/characters that are not in my code

When I code my footer, this random A with a line over it keeps popping up when I view it on the website screen. I cannot figure out how to correct it, as it is not in my code... Any suggestions?

HTML: </body> <footer>   <p>© Presley Connor</p> </footer>
</html>

CSS: footer { text-align: center; background: #4e3a39; color: #e7d3d2; padding: 1em; }

Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points
Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points

Try doing inspect in chrome developer tools and see what additional markup has been added.

2 Answers

doesitmatter
doesitmatter
12,885 Points
doesitmatter
doesitmatter
12,885 Points

The <footer> tag should be within the <body> tag. In your code, it is outside of it.

The general structure is:

<html>
<head></head>

<body>

<header></header>
<nav></nav>
<section></section>
<footer></footer>

</body>

</html>
Presley Connor
Presley Connor
944 Points

I tried this and the A is still appearing...any other ideas? Thank you!

Presley Connor
Presley Connor
944 Points
Presley Connor
Presley Connor
944 Points

It has been resolved! For some reason, deleting one of my indents in the code solved the problem! Thanks y'all