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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications Test: Creating an HTML Element

Posted by Nathan Witherspoon
Nathan Witherspoon
1,682 Points

HREF anchor not working right

<a href="#top">Go back to the top of the page. </a> This looks to be right but isn’t working. Did this like 30 times

index.html 
<!doctype>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My trip to Spain</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <img alt="A picture of me in Spain"src="images/spain.jpg">
    <p>Here is a picture of me in Spain last summer!
      <a>Go back to the top of the page.</a></p>
    <a href="#top">Go back to the top of the page. </a>
  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Nivesh Sharma
PLUS
Nivesh Sharma
Courses Plus Student 1,941 Points
Nivesh Sharma
Nivesh Sharma
Courses Plus Student 1,941 Points

Well Nathan, there is nothing wrong with the code. Everytime you press the link it works, But you don't have enough content so you could see the effects of href="#top" when you click the link....

advice add some dummy content enough to add a scroll in your index.html and then check.

Nathan Witherspoon
Nathan Witherspoon
1,682 Points
Nathan Witherspoon
Nathan Witherspoon
1,682 Points

I saw the error I was making but i must say I appreciate the response! Thank you!