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HTML HTML Lists HTML Lists

ML Johnson
ML Johnson
3,722 Points
Posted by ML Johnson
ML Johnson
3,722 Points

In midst of Task 5/6 re: nested tables in HTML. Code is right but treehouse keeps saying it's wrong. Help.

Can someone explain why this is "marked" wrong. I am to nest an ordered list under the "Shapes" item. Thank you.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>HTML Lists Challenge</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <h1>HTML Lists Challenge</h1>

    <!-- Write your code below -->

    <ol>
      <li>Stop</li>
      <li>Drop</li>
      <li>Roll</li>
    </ol>

    <ul>
      <li>Shapes</li>
        <ol>
          <li>square</li>
          <li>circle</li>    
        </ol>


      <li>Colors</li>
    </ul>

  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi Michelle,

It seems you haven't wrapped the list item around your ordered list.... Please see below :)

    <ol>

      <li>Stop</li>
      <li>Drop</li>
      <li>Roll</li>

    </ol>

    <ul>

      <li>Shapes<!-- Open Wrapper For Nesting ol -->

        <ol>
          <li>Square</li>
          <li>Circle</li>
        </ol>

      </li><!-- Close Wrapper For Nesting ol -->

      <li>Colors</li>   

    </ul>

Hope this helps! it should work it passed the code challenge :) Craig

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

It's possible that you need to capitalise Squares and Circles in your code. Code Challenges are very unforgiving when they don't see the exact strings they're expecting. :-)

Hope this helps :)

ML Johnson
ML Johnson
3,722 Points
ML Johnson
ML Johnson
3,722 Points

Thank you, gentlemen. I did both. Cut and pasted in fact. And the solutions worked. Thank you.

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

No Problem Michelle Happy Coding