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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Build the Footer

Posted by joestrandell
joestrandell
7,784 Points

Last 3 lines are red

<./footer> <./body> <./html>

These are the last three lines of my footer minus the periods and they are highlighted in red; I don't know why. I feel like this is causing problems for me when I get to CSS.

Has someone experienced the same thing?

2 Answers

Laura Cressman
Laura Cressman
12,548 Points
Laura Cressman
Laura Cressman
12,548 Points

The closing tags are simply </footer>, </body>, and </html>. Currently, you have a period before the forward slash, so <./footer> is not the same thing as </footer>. Does getting rid of the extra periods help?

Jason Anello
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Joe,

Did you put the periods in so that your html wouldn't be stripped out of the post but it's not in your actual html?

Here's a recent thread about how to post code in the forums: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/posting-code-to-the-forum

So do you suspect that you have a syntax error somewhere that is throwing off syntax highlighting?j

You'll probably need to post some more of the html that comes before those last 3 lines. Do it in a code block.

You can also try pasting your entire html into the validator here: http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input and see what errors it reports.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Ok, I checked the video and see what you mean now by the red highlighting. It's not syntax highlighting but it looks like the workspaces editor highlights in red blocks when there's a syntax error.

Try posting in a code block your beginning footer tag all the way to the end. You probably don't have a tag closed properly in your footer.