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CSS CSS Basics Understanding Values and Units Em and Rem Units

Johnesha Davis
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Johnesha Davis
Web Development Techdegree Student 737 Points
Posted by Johnesha Davis
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Johnesha Davis
Web Development Techdegree Student 737 Points

bummer: Make sure your setting the font-size of .heading using a rem unit. help on my mistake please?

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

html {
  font-size: 3em;  /*** 48px ***/
}

header {
  font-size: 1.5em;
}

.heading {
  font-size: 5rem;
}

h2 { 
  font-size: 3em; /*** 48px ***/
}

h3 {
  font-size: 1.25em; /*** 20px ***/
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Developer Diane: Resume</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main>
    <header>
      <div id="header-box">
        <h1 class="heading">Developer Diane: Resume</h1>
        <address>
          <p>website: developerdiane.com</p>
          <p>email: diane@developerdiane.com</p>
        </address>
        <img src="developer-diane.jpg" alt="Developer Diane coding on her laptop.">
      </div>
    </header>          
    <section id="education">
      <h2>Education</h2>          
      <ul>
        <li>
          <h3><a href="https://teamtreehouse.com">Treehouse</a></h3>
          <p>Front End <em>Web Development</em> Techdegree</p>
          <p class="date special">Graduated January 2020</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <section id="experience">
      <h2>Experience</h2>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <h3>Super Web Design Shop</h3>
          <p>Junior Developer</p>
          <p class="date special">February 2020-present</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <h3>Pretty Good Websites, Inc.</h3>
          <p>Web Development Intern</p>
          <p class="date">July 2019-January 2020</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <section>
      <h2>Skills</h2>
      <ul id="skills-list">
        <li class="top-skill">HTML</li>
        <li>CSS</li>
        <li class="top-skill" id="proud">JavaScript</li>
        <li>Git</li>
        <li>Bootstrap</li>
        <li class="top-skill">Mobile Web Development</li>
        <li>Accessibility</li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <section>
      <h2>Awards and Achievements</h2>
      <ol>
        <li>Dev Ninja Award, November 2020</li>
        <li>Developer of the Month, October 2019</li>
        <li>Achieved rating of 6 kyu on <a href="https://www.codewars.com/">Codewars</a></li>
        <li>Certified Accessibility Specialist</li>
      </ol>
    </section>
    <footer>©2020 Developer Diane.</footer>
  </main>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
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Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,878 Points

Hi Johnesha,

For some reason you've changed the font size for the html. It was originally 16px and none of the instructions asked for it to be changed. Just change it back and the rest of your code will run fine.

Hope this helps.

Johnesha Davis
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Johnesha Davis
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Johnesha Davis
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Johnesha Davis
Web Development Techdegree Student 737 Points

Hey Rick, I have a question about starting my first project. Can you please help me? Do I start the project from scratch? Or should there be a layout on what`s expected? Also, should I be starting my project on a workspace? Or a new repository on Github?

Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,878 Points
Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,878 Points

Hello again Johnesha,

I'd recommend that you download a text editor designed for coding projects, such as Visual Studio Code. There is an intro course on Treehouse that will help you get a handle on it: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/introducing-the-vs-code-text-editor, although there are other editors out there too. You can even just use Notepad in Windows (or TextEdit if you are on an Apple product) if you want (don't use Word (or Apple's Pages); it has too much formatting which will mess up the simple text characters you need for programming). I wouldn't use a workspace, I think that's really designed for courses on Treehouse. You will want to deploy your project to github, but you'll need to learn about that first. I'd just start building it while everything is still fresh in your memory, and worry about github a bit later. A course for that is: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/github-basics. As far as how to get started with the actual coding, do it from scratch, or Google "boilerplate html" to get a basic layout. As far as what's expected, you need to determine that for yourself based on what you want to build. Think about it for a time and write down your projects goals, break them down into subparts you will need to code, and then make them work together.

Hope this helps!