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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Create Navigation with Lists

Posted by Israel Moreno
Israel Moreno
563 Points

how to place <nav> between header

Where do I place the navagation tag between headers

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
       <a href="index.html">
        <nav>
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
        </nav>  
      </a>
     </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
jtorres08
jtorres08
13,178 Points

<!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>Item 1</li> <li>Item 2</li> <li>Item 3</li> </ul> </nav> </header> <section></section> <footer> <p>Ā© 2013 Nick Pettit.</p> </footer>

In your code, you've made the nav the container for your headings. But the h1 and h2 tags are for your logo/home link, while the nav element should be the sibling to the anchor as above. Inside the nav is its children, the ul tags. And the li tags are ul tags' children, which are siblings to each other.

Hope this helps!

1 Answer

Justin Hill
Justin Hill
16,642 Points
Justin Hill
Justin Hill
16,642 Points

Think of nav as a container for all of the individual links that lead to the different pages on your site. Usually, your nav element will have an unordered list, with each list item linking to a different page. The nav element itself doesn't do anything special - it's just semantic I believe (it just makes your document more readable). See this documentation over at MDN for an example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/nav