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HTML How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Center the Wrapper

Suliman Alhur
Suliman Alhur
2,464 Points
Posted by Suliman Alhur
Suliman Alhur
2,464 Points

wrapper <div id="wrapper">

although my main.css file linked properly with my index.html ,but can't see the effects of wrapper ?

index.html

</header> <div id="wrapper"> <section>

</footer> </div>
</body>

main.css

a { text-decoration:none; {

wrapper {

  max-width: 940px;
  margin : 0 auto;
  padding : 5%;
  background:orange;
}

wrapper >>>> highlighted by red

1 Answer

Bianca Ene
Bianca Ene
3,908 Points
Bianca Ene
Bianca Ene
3,908 Points

I see two problems :

the way you closed the a ( a { text-decoration:none; { should be a { text-decoration:none; } )

and don't forget to put the # in front of wrapper in main.css to indicate it is a div id

so basically you should have:

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin : 0 auto; padding : 5%; background:orange; }

Bianca Ene
Bianca Ene
3,908 Points
Bianca Ene
Bianca Ene
3,908 Points

I'm glad it worked.