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HTML HTML Basics Going Further with HTML Email Links and Entities Challenge

Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell
3,011 Points
Posted by Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell
3,011 Points

What am i doing wrong with the h3 line ?

how can i fix it ?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My Page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h3>Design & Development</h3>
    <p>Contact me at <a href="">this email</a>.</p>
    <p>Ā© 2017</p>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points
Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points

Hi there,

The ampersand (&) is a special character in html. To have an ampersand in your text, just replace it with 

&amp;

You can find some similar examples here

Hope this helps!

Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell
3,011 Points
Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell
3,011 Points

thanks i did replace it but it still did not work

Katie Wood
Katie Wood
19,141 Points

My apologies if I misunderstood what you were asking - your question asks what is wrong with the h3 line, so I figured you were curious about why the challenge editor puts a red line under it. Fixing that won't pass the first step of the challenge, though. In your code here, the first step is not completed - that step requires you to place a mailto link in the "contact me" line. That looks like this (though I believe you can use any email address you want - challenge doesn't specify):

<p>Contact me at <a href="mailto:email@example.com">this email</a>.</p>

In the case that you've done that already, the next step of the challenge is asking that you replace the ampersand and the copyright symbol, so the issue is more than just the h3 line. In the html, we can see that there is a copyright symbol in the last paragraph - I gave the code for an ampersand in the previous answer, but the code for copyright is 

&copy;

Replace both and it should pass.

In case you're curious, you can find a list of html entities and the code for them here.