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HTML HTML Basics Structuring Your Content Grouping Content Challenge

Antonio Paturzo
Antonio Paturzo
5,042 Points
Posted by Antonio Paturzo
Antonio Paturzo
5,042 Points

Why is Task 3 not working? My main element will not wrap the entire length of this code for some reason?

I have tried every single possible solution to this problem and the site is just throwing errors at me left and right. I left the code like this so if someone would like to look at it be my guest. I am not new to HTML and I do not know why this is not working.

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>
   <main>
    <h2>The Main Articles</h2>  
    </main>
    <main>
    <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>
    </main>
    <main>
    <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>    
    </article>
    </main>
    <main>
    <article>
      <aside>
    <h3>Follow Me on Social Media:</h3>
      </aside>
    </article>
    <aside>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Twitter</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">LinkedIn</a></li>     
    </ul>
      </aside>
    </main>
    <footer>
      <main>
      <article>
      <p>&copy; 2017 My Blog</p>
      </article>
      </main>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Joshua Kaufman
Joshua Kaufman
19,193 Points

I don't really make use of the <main> tag, but you definitely can get away with using just one of them. I've included working code for the challenge, as well as some comments to show you where I placed the main tag's opening and closing statements.

<!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>
<!--You only need to include 1 main element for this exercise-->
   <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>    
    </article>
    </main>
<!-- End the main tag here -->
      <aside>
    <h3>Follow Me on Social Media:</h3>
    <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>

If you get into languages like Bootstrap, you'll notice that <div> is used pretty much everywhere instead. It's not relevant here, but I figured I would mention it for the sake of awareness in case you DO decide to use Bootstrap one day (It's a good CSS framework).

If you have any further questions, please let me know.