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

David Dehghani
David Dehghani
6,992 Points
Posted by David Dehghani
David Dehghani
6,992 Points

Problem with the <nav> element?

I have made an unordered list <ul> and stuck it in between the <nav> opening and closing elements. When I'm doing this it's say I did the first talk wrong which was just placing the nav elements. I hadn't moved them for this step so I don't know what I did wrong.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <nav>    
        <ul>
          <li>Portfolio</li>
          <li>About</li>
          <li>Contact</li>
        </ul>

        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>

        </a>
   </nav> 
        </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
skanderben
skanderben
3,331 Points
skanderben
skanderben
3,331 Points

your closing </nav> tag is after the closing </a> tag, but the anchor must end afterwords.

<a href=" "><nav> .... </nav> </a>

1 Answer

Tracy Excell
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Tracy Excell
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,333 Points
Tracy Excell
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Tracy Excell
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,333 Points

Hello,

When I read this task it said to create the nav and ul but not to add any li yet. Maybe take these out.

   ```<header>
  <a href="index.html">
    <nav>    
    <ul>
    </ul>

    <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
    <h2>Designer</h2>

    </a>
    </nav> 
    </header>

also check where your closing </a> should be? It looks like it could possibly be in the wrong place?