HTML Lists code challenge -

Passed 5 with:

<ol>
      <li>Stop</li>
      <li>Drop</li>
      <li>Roll</li>
    </ol>
    <ul>
      <li>Shapes
      <ol></ol>
     </li>
      <li>Colors</li>
    </ul>

Passed 6 with:

<ol>
      <li>Stop</li>
      <li>Drop</li>
      <li>Roll</li>
    </ol>
    <ul>
      <li>Shapes
      <ol>
        <li>Square</li>
        <li>Circle</li>
    </ol>
     </li>
      <li>Colors</li>
    </ul>

In the end Aaron it seems the errors you got were from the quiz program looking at the li tag element asked for and finding tag elements that were not asked for. I do think the tasks could have been better defined to account for the possibility of someone adding list items that were not requested. If when asking just for a list they could have asked just for a list with no items. Then if arbitrary items were added to the list they asked to be empty, they could have an error triggered instead of allowing items not asked for. It is confusing to have the list items added pass on one task and then trigger an error on the next task.

Hi Aaron. I had no similar problem when I did the tasks in that section.. Can you post the code you used that did not work?

Maybe your problem is similar to that of another who was doing the same tasks and posted on another thread https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/add-a-nested-ordered-list-to-the-shapes-item

I was able to replicate the error when going through the quiz again. Task 1 - Create an ordered list on the page.

<!-- Write your code below -->
     <ol>
      <li>A</li>
      <li>B</li>
      <li>C</li>
    </ol>

  </body>
</html>

No problem there.

Task 2 - Add the following list items to the ordered list: "Stop", "Drop", and "Roll".

I added those items to my existing list:

<!-- Write your code below -->
    <ol>
      <li>A</li>
      <li>B</li>
      <li>C</li>
      <li>Stop</li>
      <li>Drop</li>
      <li>Roll</li>
    </ol>


  </body>
</html>

And get this error message: Bummer! Your unordered list has too many list items. Try removing some.

Note that the error message says unordered list when the task specifies ordered list.

I had to remove all three previous list items to pass the task.

Error repeats itself on task 4 w/ the unordered list.

But works when the previously entered unordered list items are removed.

You passed part 1 because they were looking only for the opening and closing ordered list tags. You did not need list elements containing A, B, and C but but you had what they wanted anyway. I got a pass just by typing:

<ol>
</ol>

On the next part I passed with :

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

Perhaps because they were looking at list element tags this time the extra tags for A, B and C in your code were triggering the errors.

On task 3 I was able to pass with:

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

Passed task 4 with:

<ol>
      <li>Stop</li>
      <li>Drop</li>
      <li>Roll</li>
    </ol>
    <ul>
      <li>Shapes</li>
      <li>Colors</li>
    </ul>

I see. I think those first four tasks are poorly worded. What they are looking for is the foundation for an ordered/unordered HTML list; there is no list w/o list items.

Thanks for the taking a look at it.