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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Organize with Unordered Lists

Posted by Henry Miller
Henry Miller
7,945 Points

Why are my images broken?

All of the images I am putting in keep coming back as a broken file. Is something wrong with my code?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <section>
      <ul>
        <li><img src="numbers-01.jpg"></li>
        <li><img src="numbers-02.jpg"></li>
        <li><img src="numbers-06.jpg"></li> 
      </ul>
    </section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Charlie Bradley
Charlie Bradley
17,935 Points

If your images are in a jpg folder then you need to include the folder name such as src="jpg/numbers-01.jpg"

Sometimes I end up with broken images because there are protections on the image. On my mac, I go into the photo properties and edit the read/write privileges.

2 Answers

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

You probably have them inside an img folder which means your src path is off.

src="img/numbers-01.jpg"

Henry Miller
Henry Miller
7,945 Points
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
7,945 Points

Thank you so much! It worked!