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Posted by Foley Chew
Foley Chew
Courses Plus Student 732 Points

Stucked in task 5 of 6

Add a nested ordered list to the "Shapes" list item. I refer backed to the video . I tried to nest the list into the shape but still fail to get the correct resutl

4 Answers

dawayne
dawayne
21,329 Points
dawayne
dawayne
21,329 Points

<ul> <li>Shapes <ol></ol> </li> <li>Colors</li> </ul>

Kunika Sood
Kunika Sood
4,472 Points
Kunika Sood
Kunika Sood
4,472 Points

Could you paste your code?

Cesar Vanbuskirk
Cesar Vanbuskirk
6,672 Points
Cesar Vanbuskirk
Cesar Vanbuskirk
6,672 Points

try this 

< ol>
        <li>  
             <ol>
                 <li></li>   
             </ol>     
       </li>
  </ol>

        switch the ordered list to unordered if necessary
Cesar Vanbuskirk
Cesar Vanbuskirk
6,672 Points
Cesar Vanbuskirk
Cesar Vanbuskirk
6,672 Points

Don't close the <li> till after the nested list.

Kunika Sood
Kunika Sood
4,472 Points
Kunika Sood
Kunika Sood
4,472 Points

The task is to add a ordered list to Shapes list item. You are trying to add an ordered list inside an ordered list. The code is fundamentally correct but whats required for this particular task is that one should just add an ordered list under list item "Shapes". If you just paste <ol> <li></li> </ol> under the list item Shapes it should work. The whole code should look like(below)- <ul> <li>Shapes <ol> <li></li> </ol> </li> <li>Colors</li> </ul>