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

natalia calzado
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natalia calzado
Courses Plus Student 166 Points
Posted by natalia calzado
natalia calzado
Courses Plus Student 166 Points

why is workspace not displaying my work in the preview tab properly? 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>natalia calzado | Fashion Designer</title>
  </head>
  <body>
   <header>
     <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Natalia Calzado</h1>
        <h2>Fashion Designer</h2>
       </a>
       <nav>
        <ul>
          <li>Portfolio</li>
          <li>About</li>
          <li>Contact</li>
        </ul>
     </nav>
    </header>
    <section>
      <p>Gallery will go here.</p>   
    </section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2015 Natalia Calzado.</p>
    </footer>
   </body>
</html>
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Natalia,

I've just updated the formatting of your code in the post so it's easier to read.

I wrapped it within 3 backticks (```) on the line above and below.
Should you need to do this in future, this How-to Guide should help :)

-Rich

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi again Natalia,

How are you expecting the page to look? It doesn't have any styles attached to it but the HTML appears to work fine for me.

-RIch

natalia calzado
natalia calzado
Courses Plus Student 166 Points
natalia calzado
natalia calzado
Courses Plus Student 166 Points

Thank You for the help Rich Bagley. What im trying to do is view it in regular html.All that I see is just my name in blue letters, it just not showing all the other elements I am adding for some reason.

1 Answer

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Natalia,

It sounds as though your HTML could be caching (keeping an older copy of your page).

One quick test would be to either open the same page in a different browser or trying it in something like CodePen (for this you'd simply copy everything within the body tags over to the HTML window and it should display in the preview below).

You should see a white page with no styling but you should at least see all the text you've added.

Also, I know it may seem obvious but it may be worth double checking the file is saving your changes just in case. :)

Hope that helps.

-Rich

natalia calzado
natalia calzado
Courses Plus Student 166 Points
natalia calzado
natalia calzado
Courses Plus Student 166 Points

Thank You again I saw it in CodePen pretty awesome. I'm new at all of this so that was a bit frustrating.

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

No problem, the more you use it the easier it'll come to you :)

-Rich