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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Create a Horizontal List of Links

Joshua Howard
Joshua Howard
12,797 Points
Posted by Joshua Howard
Joshua Howard
12,797 Points

Cannot get this to work.

I've tried combining this into one line also. Like (padding: 15px 10px 15px 15px;). I don't see what i'm doing wrong here. It's pretty simple CSS.

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

nav ul {
  margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;

}

nav ul li {
    display: inline-block;
    font-weight: 800;
    padding-top: 15px;
    padding-bottom: 15px;
    padding-left: 10px;
    padding-right: 10px;

}

h1 {
  font-family: ‘Changa One’, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}
Alexander Boquist
Alexander Boquist
3,914 Points

You have to select the anchor tags.. this should work

nav a { font-weight: 800; padding: 15px 10px 15px 10px; }

3 Answers

Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
8,841 Points
Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
8,841 Points

Hi,

can you try the code like this, The challenge was to select the links inside nav. 

nav ul {
  margin-top: 0; 
  margin-left:10px;
  margin-bottom:0;
  margin-right:10px;
  padding:0;
  list-style:none;
}

nav ul li {
    display:inline-block;
    font-weight:800;

}

nav ul li a {
    padding-top: 15px;
  padding-left:10px;
  padding-bottom:15px;
  padding-right:10px;
}

You can try like "nav a" also , it will work.

Thanks, Aishu

Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
19,845 Points
Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
19,845 Points

If you are talking about your nav ul li rule, it looks like you have the paddings set to top: 15, bottom: 15, right: 10, and left: 10, instead of the padding: 15 10 15 15 you have above: "Like (padding: 15px 10px 15px 15px;)." For the shorthand property, it should be top, right, bottom, left.

Joshua Howard
Joshua Howard
12,797 Points
Joshua Howard
Joshua Howard
12,797 Points

I see, I just forgot to target the anchor attribute in the css selector. Thanks Guys! I swear I know this stuff already hahaha