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

Posted by Evgeny Agoshkov
Evgeny Agoshkov
1,565 Points

The code is right but when i click recheck work it isnt working

The code is right but when i click recheck work it isnt working. what is 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>
      <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></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Barnabas Abraham
Barnabas Abraham
8,297 Points

Hi Evgeny,

The issue looks like you've not correctly put the links outside the list items. In your example, you have the <li></li> elements and inside those you have put the links. It should be the other way round. Shown the completed markup below.

Also, to make it easier on yourself, make sure the indentation is formatted sensibly too, as a bit of your indentation is making it hard to check for errors.

<!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>
          <a href="index.html"><li>Portfolio</li></a>
          <a href="about.html"><li>About</li></a>
          <a href="contact.html"><li>Contact</li></a>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

Hey Evgeny,

I think the problem in your code is that you forgot to close the anchor element after the closing h2 tag.

It should work like this:

<!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></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>