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Posted by Seyoung Kwak
Seyoung Kwak
9,091 Points

Nested ordered list inside unordered list

Hi, I have honestly no clue why this is incorrect. The task is to add the ordered list inside the list item "Shapes", which is an unordered list.

<ul>
<li>Shapes</li>
    <ol>
          <li>Line</li>
    </ol>
</ul>

The preview shows correctly as: Shape

  1. Line Thanks!!

3 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

nested lists go inside the list item you want to nest it in like this:

<ul>
<li>Shapes
  <ol>
          <li>Line</li>
    </ol>

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

notice how the nested ordered list is inside the shapes list item tags. see the W3 wiki for more examples. While your current way displays correctly, the correct way according to the W3 is to nest it inside the list item itself

Seyoung Kwak
Seyoung Kwak
9,091 Points
Seyoung Kwak
Seyoung Kwak
9,091 Points

Thanks Stone. I wasn't aware the fact that I need to put </li> at the end of the nested list.