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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Organize with Unordered Lists

Posted by Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
7,386 Points

how to display an img tag

<li><a href="img/numbers-01.jpg"> <img src=img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> I'm getting a message stating that I've done something wrong, but I don't know what I've done wrong.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <section>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
            <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg"alt="">
            <li><a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
            <img src=img/numbers-02.jpg"alt="">
          <li><a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
            <img src=img/numbers-06.jpg"alt="">

                                               </li>

                                               <p>words to describe img</p>
                                               </a>
                                               </li>
                                               </ul>
    </section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Sanjay Tailor
Sanjay Tailor
8,443 Points
Sanjay Tailor
Sanjay Tailor
8,443 Points

You are missing a comma. Here how it should be 

        <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=" ">
Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
7,386 Points
Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
7,386 Points

A comma? , I don't see a comma. A comma is this , Am I missing a space? I should put a space between " and alt?

Sanjay Tailor
Sanjay Tailor
8,443 Points
Sanjay Tailor
Sanjay Tailor
8,443 Points

Ok... my mistake... it's quotes. It's missing quotes. alt is fine

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
7,386 Points
Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Thank you, Sanjay! You're the bee's knees.