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HTML HTML Tables Table Basics Create a Table

Posted by Andrew Alvarez
Andrew Alvarez
11,964 Points

what am i doing wrong?

it saying i need to put the first row as Name and Job

and to use whatever u want for the remaining rows but i keep on getting this wrong

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Tables</title>
  </head>
  <body>
       <table>
         <tr>
           <td>Name</td>
           <td>Job</td>
         <tr/>
         <tr>
           <td>Aaron</td>
           <td>Dark Type</td>
         <tr/>
         <tr>
           <td>Gerald</td>
           <td>Dragon Type</td>
         <tr/>
         <tr>
           <td>Alex</td>
           <td>Fighting Type</td>
         <tr/>
       </table>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi,

Everything appears to be correct apart from your closing tr tags. Try changing them all from:

<tr/>

to:

</tr>

That should sort it :)

-Rich

Kennedy Chimwanda
Kennedy Chimwanda
10,237 Points
Kennedy Chimwanda
Kennedy Chimwanda
10,237 Points

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>HTML Tables</title> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td>Name</td> <td>Job</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Aaron</td> <td>Dark Type</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gerald</td> <td>Dragon Type</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alex</td> <td>Fighting Type</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>