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HTML HTML Basics Getting Started with HTML Lists and Links Challenge

Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
1,895 Points
Posted by Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
1,895 Points

Creating link challenge task

Please, someone help me out here i'm getting a 'bummer'. Can;t seem to know where i got it wrong with the challenge. The challenge says; Make the text inside each list item a link. The first item should link to cakes.html, the second to pies.html and the third to candy.html.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lists and Links</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <ul>
    <a href="cakes.html"><li>Cakes</li></a>
    <a href="pies.html"><li>Pies</li></a>
    <a href="candy.html"><li>Candy</li></a>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Rick Rana
Rick Rana
10,285 Points

Hey Enemuo,

Your <a> anchor tags should be embedded inside your <li> list tags, like so...

<ul>
      <li><a href=cakes.html>Cakes</a></li>
      <li><a href=pies.html>Pies</a></li>
      <li><a href=candy.html>Candy</a></li>
  </ul>

Hope this helps.

Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
1,895 Points
Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
1,895 Points

Thanks Rick. any more insight why that is so

Rick Rana
Rick Rana
10,285 Points
Rick Rana
Rick Rana
10,285 Points

Only <li> list tags should be used as child elements inside any <ol> ordered list or <ul> unordered list. Your code has <a> anchor tags as the child element inside your <ul>, which is semantically incorrect. Check out this link for a detailed look.

List element

Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
1,895 Points
Enemuo Felix
Enemuo Felix
1,895 Points

Very Helpful. Big ups!