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HTML HTML Basics Structuring Your Content Grouping Content Challenge

Posted by Nick Winterswijk
Nick Winterswijk
548 Points

Main element is not working

Assignment: Group each set of h3 and p elements using an element that describes self-contained pieces of content.

My answer: I placed the <main> and </main> element around all the <h3> </h3> content, but it still gives an error.

What should I do to solve this assignment?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <title>My Blog</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <h1>My Web Design &amp; Development Blog!</h1> 
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Articles</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Recent Work</a></li>            
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>

    <h2>The Main Articles</h2>   
    <main>
      <div>
        <h3>My Favorite HTML Courses</h3> 
        <p>Fusce semper id ipsum sed scelerisque. Etiam nec elementum massa. Pellentesque tristique ex ac ipsum hendrerit, eget <a href="#">feugiat ante faucibus</a>.</p>
      </div>
        <h3>10 Handy CSS Features</h3> 
      <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et <a href="#">ultrices posuere</a>.</p>    

      <h3>Follow Me on Social Media:</h3>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="#">Twitter</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">LinkedIn</a></li>     
      </ul>
    </main>

    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2017 My Blog</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
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Jamie Reardon
Treehouse Project Reviewer

The article tag is what is used to represent self-contained pieces of content. Remove your div tags around the h3 and p elements as this doesn't add any semantic meaning to your markup.

Remember, you have learned about semantic tags such as article and section, and what you want to do with your future html pages is try to produce markup that is semantically written.

The div element is a generic container that has no semantic meaning, use it as a last resort where there are no other tags that could describe the content.

<article>
  <h3>My Favorite HTML Courses</h3> 
  <p>Fusce semper id ipsum sed scelerisque. Etiam nec elementum massa. Pellentesque tristique ex ac ipsum hendrerit, eget <a href="#">feugiat ante faucibus</a>.</p>
</article>
Nick Winterswijk
Nick Winterswijk
548 Points

Thank you very much, that makes sense :)