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

Posted by Patrick McKee
Patrick McKee
1,768 Points

Syntax problem - What is wrong with my ul & nav tags?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <nav>
        <ul>
          <li>Portfolio</li>
            <li>About</li>
          <li>Contact</li>        
        </ul>
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>


      </a>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

I formatted your code for you so it would show up correctly in the forum. Have a look at this post or watch the tips for asking questions video on the right side of the page to see how to format code in the forum

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

The nav tags and the list are supposed to go BELOW the link in the header (which means they should be placed after the closing </a> tag) . you have yours inside the link currently (between the <a></a> tags) . you also forgot to close your nav tag it looks like. so try fixing those issues and see if you can pass.

Patrick McKee
Patrick McKee
1,768 Points
Patrick McKee
Patrick McKee
1,768 Points

those worked, thank you very much!