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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Create Navigation with Lists

Daniel Schoonover
Daniel Schoonover
2,814 Points
Posted by Daniel Schoonover
Daniel Schoonover
2,814 Points

What am I doing wrong

I entered the code <li><a herf="index.html">blablabla</a></li> and it is telling me the code is wrong. What am I doing wrong?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a herf="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
            <li><a herf="about">About</a></li>
          <li><a herf="about">Contact</a></li>
        <ul>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
50,595 Points
Holger Liesegang
Holger Liesegang
50,595 Points

Hi Daniel,

you misspelled "href" by mistake und forgot to include two of the links. This should work:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
            <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        <ul>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
10,319 Points
Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
10,319 Points

You not only misspelled "href" but you also forgot to close your 

<nav></nav>

tag !

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
            <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        <ul>
      </nav> <!-- YOU FORGOT THIS ONE ! -->
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
10,319 Points

Such things are an easy miss Holger Liesegang ! I use to miss them a lot too when I actually get to coding. Good thing stuff like html linting does exist for me !