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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Make a CSS Image Gallery

Casey Beaver
Casey Beaver
512 Points
Posted by Casey Beaver
Casey Beaver
512 Points

Add 2.5% margin + set background and text colors to gallery(id) list items.

Below is my code--I'm not sure why I'm not passing this. When I click check work it says "be sure to set the color of your list items to a color of your choice." -- Am I not doing this correctly?

gallery li {

float: left; max-width: 45%; margin: 2.5%; color: #000; background: #333; }

Casey Beaver
Casey Beaver
512 Points
Casey Beaver
Casey Beaver
512 Points

Nevermind, forget my # on gallery li!

2 Answers

sizwengubane
sizwengubane
15,244 Points
sizwengubane
sizwengubane
15,244 Points

Hello bro...you should use "background-color" property, not the "background" property Although both are similar...background-color is more SPECIFIC to the question asked 

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  color: red;
  background-color: blue;
}

If this helped..please rate my answer