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

Posted by YUE YU
YUE YU
2,702 Points

I wrote "<li> <a href= "index.html"> Portfolio </a></li>", it showed error and message says I need to link to index.html

I wrote "<li> <a href= "index.html"> Portfolio </a></li>", it showed error and message says I need to link to index.html

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

1 Answer

Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points
Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points

Hi,

Index.html link is fine. Couple of your HTML tags are underlines right when i open it up. Most often it's because you are missing closing or opening tags. Take a look at original '</a>' tag - line 18. This needs to be moved above your <nav> opening tag. Plus take a look what else is missing. Hint - I mentioned this tag in here.

Please use https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input to validate your HTML. By reading the error messages it will give you some pointers on what is wrong.