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David Eaton
David Eaton
45 Points
Posted by David Eaton
David Eaton
45 Points

Why do I keep getting error message stating to write only within the <h1> tag, preview shows my name clearly?

<h1> David <h1/>

continues to give me an error message that I need to write text only with the <h1> tag. Not sure why, for the above shows my name clearly in preview.

index.html 
<h1>
  David
<h1/>
Nikki Bollman
Nikki Bollman
7,281 Points
Nikki Bollman
Nikki Bollman
7,281 Points

Your closing tag has the backslash in the wrong place. It should be 

<h1>
  David
</h1>

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Your end tag is not correct.

As Nikki illustrated, the end tag should be "</h1>". But the character that needs to be relocated is a slash.

FYI: A "backslash" looks like this :point_right: \ (and is not used in HTML tags).

Nikki Bollman
Nikki Bollman
7,281 Points
Nikki Bollman
Nikki Bollman
7,281 Points

Oops, I was wondering if I was using the correct word. Guess I should've looked it up. Thanks!