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john ou
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john ou
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 244 Points

Linking it all up how to question

Hello! its my first day and im trying to see what's wrong with my code or where I may have messed up at.

im just following along the intro part where she's linking up the resume to the main page but it doesn't seem to work and I can't find where my problem is.

https://w.trhou.se/cp3j0huxn0

I think the lines in question is around 30-37 area. Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

Caleb Kemp
Caleb Kemp
12,755 Points

Your quite right, it was between 30 and 37, I believe it's on line 33 The quotation marks appear to have been accidentally misplaced.

<a href="resume.htmlview my resume".</a>>

should look like

<a href="resume.html">view my resume.</a>

Hope that helps

Caleb Kemp
Caleb Kemp
12,755 Points

I'm not sure I understand, in the workspace you just posted, line 33 in index.html still hadn't been fixed and was displaying

<li>To learn more, <a href="resume.htmlview my resume.</a>><li>

which is closer...maybe I should break it down a little further.

you need <a href="resume.html then a " (closing quotation), after that, you have to finish your A tag with a > (right arrow) symbol. It should look like this

<a href="resume.html">

Now we add </a> to close the A tag, making this

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

Now the link text (View my resume) will go in between where the arrows meet ></a> like this >text</a>

The final result of all this should look like

<a href="resume.html">View my resume</a>

Please note that there is an arrow symbol on BOTH sides of the text "View my resume". Here is how the complete line should look like

<li>To learn more, <a href="resume.html">View my resume</a></li>

I know it can be hard at first, but you have to copy the symbols identically. A computer isn't like a human where they can understand what you meant and can overlook small errors. The computer doesn't have a brain, and if everything isn't exactly the way it expects it, it will often cause a problem and make it fail. Don't worry, spelling errors give a lot of people trouble starting out.