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HTML HTML Basics Getting Started with HTML Lists and Links Challenge

Posted by gerrymandered
gerrymandered
7,782 Points

Why does the <a> need to be inside the <Li> when making a list of links? ex. <li><a href="#">some link</a></li>

The code works just as well for me when the <a> is inside or outside the <li> but the code assignment will only except the <a> inside the <li> as a valid answer.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lists and Links</title>
  </head>
  <body>

  Cakes
  Pies
  Candy

  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

This is something I've often wondered myself. I'd prefer it if you could wrap the tags your way. But I suppose anchor elements inside list items is more semantic. It has more meaning and is more logical.

I've done some digging online and found a StackOverflow article that explains things further. The key takeaway being that the direct child of an unordered list or an ordered list should be a list item element.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12086453/wrap-anchor-tag-around-li-element