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

Posted by Anthony Espinosa
Anthony Espinosa
3,920 Points

it keeps saying "Bummer! the Portfolio list item should be linked to "index.html" is this a bug?

<li><a href="index.html"></a>Portfolio</li>

ive watched the tutorial and checked my launch space a dozen of times and idk what im doing 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"></a>Portfolio</li>
          <li><a href="about.html"></a>About</li>
          <li><a href="contact.html"></a>Contact</li>
          </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Anthony,

Sorry, there's no bug. :)

The problem is with your anchor tags. In order to include the text (i.e. Portfolio), the closing <a> tag must come after the text, not before it.

        <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>

Make sense? Keep Coding! :dizzy:

Anthony Espinosa
Anthony Espinosa
3,920 Points

Ty. Can't believe I didn't even see that.

Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points
Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos
19,315 Points

You're not linking it properly.

You have:

       <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html"></a>Portfolio</li>
          <li><a href="about.html"></a>About</li>
          <li><a href="contact.html"></a>Contact</li>
       </ul>

Should be:

       <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>

Your anchor tag was not wrapping the link therefor not being linked.

Anthony Espinosa
Anthony Espinosa
3,920 Points

Ty. I can't believe I missed that.