Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Add Social Media Links

Karthik Nagarajan
Karthik Nagarajan
5,245 Points
Posted by Karthik Nagarajan
Karthik Nagarajan
5,245 Points

Code Challenge throwing me an error in spite of the correct answer

Question:

Add twitter and Facebook images with appropriate alternative attributes inside the footer

Answer:

<footer> <img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt"fblogo"> <img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt"twitterlogo"> <p>© 2013 Nick Pettit.</p> </footer>

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>
          <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
        </li>
        <li>
          <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
        </li>
        <li>
          <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <footer>
      <img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt"fblogo">
      <img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt"twitterlogo">
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
kiran siddiqi
kiran siddiqi
992 Points

Hello Karthik You are missing an Equal sign next to alt attribute.

It should look like this:

      <img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="fblogo">
      <img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="twitterlogo">

2 Answers

Gregory Myers
Gregory Myers
21,988 Points
Gregory Myers
Gregory Myers
21,988 Points

The alt attribute should always be followed with an = in HTML.