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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Use the Navigation Element

Why does adding an anchor element in the workspace change the way the program auto indents and auto codes closing tags?

After I add the

<a href="index.html>

anchor element and close it with

</a>

in the workshop, hitting enter to write a new line of code no longer auto indents lines of code. Also the workshop is designed to auto close tags. Example: when I type <h1>, the system automatically adds the closing tag </h1> so I don't have to. Since I have added the

<a href="index.html> </a> 

anchor element to my document, it automatically adds </a> after I start a new tag. For instance, now when I type <h1>, instead of auto coding the closing tag with </h1> to show

<h1></h1>

it looks like this instead.

<h1></a>

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

Try adding your example again, it doesn't seem to show up.

1 Answer

sergio leandro
sergio leandro
1,337 Points

you are missing the " after html. i had the exact same problem.

Thanks for the response! I actually did have the quotations in the right places. I ended up getting past it by manually writing the closing tag first and then going back and writing the anchor. It was weird. It did the same thing again a little bit later and I used the same technique to make it work. I have since added several more anchors and it has not happened again.