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HTML HTML Basics Structuring Your Content Grouping Content Challenge

Kevin Lewis
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Kevin Lewis
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 9,667 Points
Posted by Kevin Lewis
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Kevin Lewis
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 9,667 Points

Don't know where to put my closing section.

I thought it would go after the closing article under <h3> but it doesn't seem to work.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <title>My Blog</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <h1>My Web Design &amp; Development Blog!</h1> 
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Articles</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Recent Work</a></li>            
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
   <section>
    <h2>The Main Articles</h2>   
      <article>
      <h3>My Favorite HTML Courses</h3> 
      <p>Fusce semper id ipsum sed scelerisque. Etiam nec elementum massa. Pellentesque tristique ex ac ipsum hendrerit, eget <a href="#">feugiat ante faucibus</a>.</p>
      <h3>10 Handy CSS Features</h3> 
      <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et <a href="#">ultrices posuere</a>.</p>    
      <h3>Follow Me on Social Media:</h3>
      </article>
    <article>
      <aside>
      <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Twitter</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">LinkedIn</a></li>     
    </ul>
      </aside>
        </article> 
      <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2017 My Blog</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
steven swensen
steven swensen
7,926 Points

So you don't want to include the <aside> tag. Also I would not put the aside tag inside an article tag.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <title>My Blog</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <h1>My Web Design &amp; Development Blog!</h1> 
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Articles</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Recent Work</a></li>            
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
   <main>
    <h2>The Main Articles</h2>   
      <article>
      <h3>My Favorite HTML Courses</h3> 
      <p>Fusce semper id ipsum sed scelerisque. Etiam nec elementum massa. Pellentesque tristique ex ac ipsum hendrerit, eget <a href="#">feugiat ante faucibus</a>.</p>
      </article>
      <article>
      <h3>10 Handy CSS Features</h3> 
      <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et <a href="#">ultrices posuere</a>.</p>    
      <h3>Follow Me on Social Media:</h3>
      </article>
     </main>
      <aside>
      <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Twitter</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">LinkedIn</a></li>     
    </ul>
      </aside> 
      <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2017 My Blog</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

5 Answers

Zack Lee
PLUS
Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 Points
Zack Lee
Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 Points

You never actually closed your first section tag just under the closing header tag. Adding another section before closing the first will result in unpredictable behavior and/or errors.

Also try nesting your elements a little more neatly. Its a little hard to follow because of inconsistent spacing and tabbing. Being neat will make your code more readable and easier to spot mistakes.

Godfrey M
PLUS
Godfrey M
Courses Plus Student 2,696 Points
Godfrey M
Godfrey M
Courses Plus Student 2,696 Points

Hi dear fellow student , at this point the closing section tag may not affect the mark up of your html. but later when you try to add some styling this will be a total bug ( meaning a HTML mark up error) as you will assign a class or ID to that particular un closed "section tag" and changes wont take effect. so i don't know whether you have covered some CSS you may understand what i am talking about here. another thing try to make your codes readable . so simply put the closing section tag right after your first closing" articles" tag and remove the article tag around the "aside tag" it has no meaning instead you would nest into a section tag around it.

ANOTHER better way you would avoid such errors is when you open atag then close it up immediately then nest other element inside it, this may reduce errors when marking up your document.

geremy ibobi
geremy ibobi
18,801 Points
geremy ibobi
geremy ibobi
18,801 Points

Your section tag remained unclosed. You should put a closing section tag"</section>" between the article tag.

Jamal Searles
Jamal Searles
2,476 Points
Jamal Searles
Jamal Searles
2,476 Points

Your closing section tag should follow the first closing article tag if you want the first article to be in that section.

Marie Urbina
Marie Urbina
7,168 Points
Marie Urbina
Marie Urbina
7,168 Points

Hmmm, if you are trying to set up multiple articles in a section, like in a newspaper, then can you put the closing </section> after the last closing article tag?