FAQ: Learn HTML - Common HTML Elements - Linking to Same Page

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A post was split to a new topic: Forgot to close unordered list

Does the href have to be lowercase?

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Lesson 10, linking to same page.
can i link to the id using ordered lists or only unordered lists?

if the list elements contain anchor elements, then yes

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I’m studying on HTML DOCUMENT STANDARDS/10.Linking to Same Page
I followed the intructions and system agreed to pass to next level,but when I checked back, I noticed something unexpected. When I click on the media at the local host side ( third line under The Brown Bear’ , it does not directly go to the line of media ( over the bear photo) What I see at top of the page is the line writing ‘3. Canada’ .Does that happen, because it’s the end of the page or is there a problem? Because other two links take you directly to the top of the page. Hope I did not ask complicated?:slight_smile:

yep, its because of end of page. Html is just a markup language, there is happening so much under the hood

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What does the # character do?

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Bonjour, je ne comprends pas a quoi correspond

car pour l’exercice 10 j’ai réussi sans inclure
? merci
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Why on this exercise the ordered list opening tag is <ul> and not <ol> like previously explained?

UL is unordered list with bullets, as opposed to ordered list with numbers or letters.

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Thanks! I just figured it out :relieved:

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How come you need to use the # symbol when referencing an id tag? In the lesson we have it

. Wouldn’t we just be able to call "href=“habitat”? Or does the “#” only apply to ids?

That link will go nowhere. We must include the hash so the browser knows to look for a page fragment with id="habitat".

Correct, only ids in the markup. In CSS they symbolize the id selector.

#habitat {

}

I was wondering the same. Also whether it best to write the href # string full lout like #introduction or that short abbreviations like #intro are better.

I have a sense of what the answer will be (something along the line off readability for other developers) but wonder if there is a best practice answer :wink:

There is no better in this example, only what we subjectively prefer. To be objective we should leave no room for ambiguity so abbreviations should probably be avoided, thus giving the reader a clear picture what the id denotes. A familiar abbreviation, like ‘intro’ is perfectly fine so long as we associate it immediately with the word ‘introduction’.

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I’m very confused as to why the exercise does not register my link for “habitat.” I included a photo. Thoughts?
Capture

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I was doing just fine until I got to “Linking To Same Page.” # 1. Was a breeze. But the 2nd part of the exercise has me stumped.

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Any link that looks like this,

<a href="#">Link text</a>

is requesting the current page landing point.

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