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Posted by Benjamin Laughman
Benjamin Laughman
7,026 Points

Unordered List Difficulty

I am working on one of the very first challenge sets in the "Web Design" track. I made my title, "Smells Like Bakin' Cupcake Company" and inserted my image, but then the next challenge question asks you to insert an unordered list after the image. My code after the image looks like this: '''html <body> ''' '''html <img src="img/cupcake.jpg" ''' '''html <ul> </ul> <body> ''' I'm not sure why it's not accepting this as an unordered list. It keeps telling me that I need to use a ul tag.

I also tried: ''html <body> '''

'''html <img src="img/cupcake.jpg" <ul> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> </ul> </body> '''

And it doesn't like that either. I was fairly sure I was doing this correctly, but obviously there's an issue.

I'm also not very clear on whether the spacing or indenting or new lines really matters for code syntax. Maybe it does.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

looks like your html code isnt showing up. to see how to post html code in the forum look at the markdown cheatsheet

Matheus Pazetti de Oliveira
Matheus Pazetti de Oliveira
Courses Plus Student 7,090 Points

Please edit your message using Markdown Cheatsheet, otherwise it's not possible to see your code.

Benjamin Laughman
Benjamin Laughman
7,026 Points 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <title> Smells Like Bakin' Cupcake Company </title>

  </head>

  <body>
    <img src= "img/cupcake.jpg"
    <ul>

    </ul>    
  </body>
</html>

` ` `

I also tried:

```html
<body>
    <img src= "img/cupcake.jpg"
    <ul></ul>    
  </body>
</html> ` ` `

and I also tried:

```html
<body>
    <img src= "img/cupcake.jpg"
    <ul>
      <li></li>
      <li></li>
      <li></li>
    </ul>    
  </body>
</html> ` ` `

1 Answer

Jeremy Frimond
Jeremy Frimond
14,470 Points
Jeremy Frimond
Jeremy Frimond
14,470 Points

Benjamin Laughman I entered it pretty much the same way you did and got the answer correct. I assume there is some small syntax error in your code that is causing it to fail. Either way here is the code:

    <img src="img/cupcake.jpg"/>
    <ul>

    </ul>
  </body> ```
Benjamin Laughman
Benjamin Laughman
7,026 Points

Thank you! My problem was that I never closed my image line with the extra / >. Once I did that, it worked just fine! Thanks!!!