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

Posted by Cleveland Beasley
Cleveland Beasley
251 Points

Adding images to list items

is this the proper syntax to add images to list items; <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">

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"</li>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-02.jpg"</li>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-06.jpg"</li>
        </a>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Cameron S
Cameron S
20,537 Points
Cameron S
Cameron S
20,537 Points

You need to close the anchor tags within each list item. For example, your code should look like this: 

 <ul>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-01.jpg"></a></li>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-02.jpg"></a></li>
        <li><a href="img/numbers-06.jpg"></a></li>
 </ul>