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

how can I add Inside the navigation element, three list items with the words, “Portfolio”, “About”, and “Contact”

I am beginner for web developing. my problem is adding those list under navigation.

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Bantayehu Lullessa</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Banatyehu Lullessa</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; 2015 Bantayehu Lullessa.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

in your contact list link you have an extra greater than symbol after your written "contact. <li><a href="contact.html">contact>....</a></li>

Hi bantayehu,

Were you able to solve this issue? If not, I'll be happy to help.

1 Answer

It should look like this:

<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>