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HTML HTML Basics Getting Started with HTML Lists and Links Challenge

I would like help with this question and the error message that I am getting.

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/html-basics-2/getting-started-with-html/lists-and-links-challenge

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lists and Links</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <ul>  
    <li><a href cakes.html> cakes</a> </li>
    <li><a>Pies</a></li>
    <li><a>Candy</a></li>
    </ul>  
  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Hi Avery,

it's the little things that often create an error...

Your code is pretty nice but there is one little thing missing between the "href" attribute and "cakes.html" (plus around "cakes.html". Can you find it?

Otherwhise I will tell you... ;-)

Happy coding!

Nils

can you tell me why this code is not running properly? It seems the be fine in the text on the page, but it is giving me an error message.

Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
15,053 Points

Avery Pierce Any attributes of an element need to have their values wrapped in quotes. Attributes of HTML elements operate on a key : value pairing. So "key" is the name of the attribute whereas "value" is the value / setting for that particular attribute. In HTML, the key is inside of the opening tag, and that key's value is assigned to its key via `="____"

In this instance, for the a tag, it has an href attribute.

So an a tag could look like this:

<a href="_____">YourLink</a>

Now you just need to update your code to match the pattern above.