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CSS CSS Layout CSS Layout Techniques Display

Posted by Chris Belisle
Chris Belisle
2,926 Points

"Make sure you're targeting the items inside 'main-list'."

I keep getting this error and I'm not sure how else to select the class "main-list"

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

header {
  text-align: center;
}
.logo {
  width: 60px;
  margin: auto;
}
.main-list {
  display: inline-block;
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>CSS Layout</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
    <body>
    <div class="container">
        <header>
            <img class="logo" src="city-logo.svg" alt="An illustration of a building">
            <ul class="main-list">
                <li><a href="#">Donuts</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Tea</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Coffee</a></li>
            </ul>
        </header>
    </div>
    </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points
Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points

Hi Chris!

In the first task, they want you to target the list items that are the children of .main-list, so you'd want to use the descendant selector (parent element and child target separated by a space), like this:

.main-list li {
  display: inline-block
}

More info:

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_combinators.asp

I hope that helps.

Stay safe and happy coding!