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Lanie Crawford
657 Pointssetting the href attribute
I can't see what I'm doing wrong, why does it keep saying I need to set the href to attribute to pies.html, I thought I had?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Lists and Links</title>
</head>
<body>
<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>
</body>
</html>
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! There are a couple of things going on here. First, you've changed the text "Cakes" to "cakes" and "Pies" to "pies". These are the pieces of text that your users will click on to go to the links.
But above and beyond that, on every line, you've started your anchor tag or <a> element but forgotten the closed angle bracket >. Because of this error, it cannot make it past the first link. Take a look:
<!-- You typed -->
<li> <a href="cakes.html"cakes</a></li>
<!-- But you meant to type -->
<li> <a href="cakes.html">cakes</a></li>
This is true for every line that contains a link.
Hope this helps!
Jamie Shankland
798 PointsThe course obviously does not explain this correctly enough. As I have done exactly the same as Lanie, I was getting the same error message and couldn't work out why.
So when you are using a <a> and <li> the <li> stays outside the a? I would never of done that, is it best practise or is it the only way it will work?
Jamie Shankland
798 PointsI managed to get mines working.. whilst moving the <A> inside of the list items.
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherYes, it is the only way it will work. A list item is the only allowed direct descendent of an ordered list or unordered list. You can find this in the MDN documentation.
On a side note, your problem wasn't exactly like Lanie's. In her question, she forgot the closing angle bracket on the opening anchor tag. I'm not convinced that you also did the same thing.