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HTML HTML Basics Structuring Your Content Structuring Content Challenge

Tony Lo Giudice
Tony Lo Giudice
203 Points
Posted by Tony Lo Giudice
Tony Lo Giudice
203 Points

What is it asking and what am I doing wrong?

?????

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <title>My Portfolio</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <nav>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Work</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>            
      </ul>
      <h1>My Web Design &amp; Development Portfolio!</h1> 
      <p>A site featuring my latest work.</p>
    </nav>

      <h2>Welcome</h2> 
    <p>Fusce semper id ipsum sed scelerisque. Etiam nec elementum massa. Pellentesque tristique ex ac ipsum hendrerit, eget feugiat ante faucibus.</p>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Recent project #1</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Recent project #2</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Recent project #3</a></li>     
    </ul>

    <p>&copy; 2017 My Portfolio</p>
    <p>Follow me on <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Instagram</a> and <a href="#">Dribbble</a></p>
  </body>
</html>
Kieran Barker
Kieran Barker
15,028 Points
Kieran Barker
Kieran Barker
15,028 Points

Please can you be more specific? What's your issue? Your HTML seems to be correct, and I ran it through an HTML validator to double-check.

Tony Lo Giudice
Tony Lo Giudice
203 Points
Tony Lo Giudice
Tony Lo Giudice
203 Points

well, the challenge says, Place the ul, h1 and p elements at the top of the page inside an element that represents a group of introductory or navigational content I checked this code and it did not work what am I supposed to do I do not understand what they are trying to tell me.

Kieran Barker
Kieran Barker
15,028 Points
Kieran Barker
Kieran Barker
15,028 Points

You need to wrap the <ul>, <h1>, and <p> elements inside a <header> element, like so:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <title>My Portfolio</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Work</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>            
      </ul>
      <h1>My Web Design &amp; Development Portfolio!</h1> 
      <p>A site featuring my latest work.</p>
    </header>

    <h2>Welcome</h2> 
    <p>Fusce semper id ipsum sed scelerisque. Etiam nec elementum massa. Pellentesque tristique ex ac ipsum hendrerit, eget feugiat ante faucibus.</p>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Recent project #1</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Recent project #2</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Recent project #3</a></li>     
    </ul>

    <p>&copy; 2017 My Portfolio</p>
    <p>Follow me on <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Instagram</a> and <a href="#">Dribbble</a></p>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

A.J. Kandy
PLUS
A.J. Kandy
Courses Plus Student 12,422 Points
A.J. Kandy
A.J. Kandy
Courses Plus Student 12,422 Points

Kieran's answer is correct. To explain further, the header element is semantic markup - semantic means it is symbolic and carries meaning about its purpose, rather than being a literal element like a list, div, paragraph etc.

In the context of HTML5, the browser parses anything wrapped in the header, nav, article, aside, and footer elements as units with specific types of content, and (nominally) a relationship to each other.

The layout of these elements is completely controlled by CSS, so in theory your footer can be up top and your header at the bottom - but to search engines it will understand the header content as being a description, the article as the main content, the aside as a sidebar, and footer as information about the site, sitemap, etc.

This is also important for screen readers and 'readability' plugins so they can choose what information to read out, what order to read them in, or what elements to display or hide.