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Hello, I am having an issue here. I have entered the UL code exactly as it is in the example but when I press “Run” it says “no response received fro the web browser” and marks the task box with a red X instead of the green check. Could someone take a look at this and see what I have done wrong?
LI stands for List Item, and by definition a list will have multiple items, usually three or more. We denote them with the <li/> tag so the browser can render them as bullet points, or at the very least as separate related items that user agents can identify.
Let’s step back in time, before Web Standards came into vogue. It was common to see the following in scaled down markup,
Then the early standards recommended at least one printable character between each link to set them apart from one another.
Home | About | Contact
or
Home • About • Contact
Once we had CSS, it was no major leap to implement unordered lists in navigation menus. That took all the guess work out for the user agent. New list item, new link. It also spelled the death knell for table based layouts.