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HTML HTML Basics Going Further with HTML Email Links and Entities Challenge

Posted by Ian Hart
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Ian Hart
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 40,962 Points

can't figure out the ampersan

It says to make sure I'm adding the amperstan, but i thought I added it.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My Page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h3>Design & Development</h3>
    <p>Contact me at <a href="mailto:ianhart@gmail.com">this email</a>.</p>
    <p> &copy; 2017</p>
  </body>
</html>

3 Answers

jomclaughlin
jomclaughlin
8,720 Points
jomclaughlin
jomclaughlin
8,720 Points

Because the & symbol is used at start to signal a character... like &lt; converts to < and &gt; converts to >, you have to write &amp; to get the output to be the actual ampersand... hope that helps.

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Hey! It's great to see you're trying out Markdown and using it on the forums, but I think you're looking for the backtick character (`) instead of the apostrophe ('). The backtick looks really similar, but it's a different character. On the US keyboard, it's under the tilde (~), right next to the 1. You can hit the "Edit" button on your answer to see what it looks like in practice

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

In this case, it wants you to also add the ampersand as an HTML entity. The HTML entity keyword for the ampersand is amp, or you can use its entity number (#38)

Valerie Way
Valerie Way
8,544 Points
Valerie Way
Valerie Way
8,544 Points

Try using 

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Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
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Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Hey Valerie! I just wanted to let you know that it's frowned upon here to post a copy/paste solution to a challenge with no explanation whatsoever. If you'd like, feel free to add it back, but with a bit of explanation of why that's the answer. Thanks for helping out around the Community!