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

Deeana Parent
Deeana Parent
1,699 Points
Posted by Deeana Parent
Deeana Parent
1,699 Points

Challenge: Add a margin of 2.5% to the gallery list items. Set the text and background to colors.

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but my brain is frazzled. Where am I going wrong in my code?

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

img {
max-width: 100%;
}

#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;
}

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

#gallery {
margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}
#gallery li {
float: left;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  width: 45%;
}
#gallery li a {
color: #c2c2c2
}

3 Answers

Deeana Parent
Deeana Parent
1,699 Points
Deeana Parent
Deeana Parent
1,699 Points

I should've been more patient with myself, figured it out. Thanks anyway!

Deeana Parent
Deeana Parent
1,699 Points
Deeana Parent
Deeana Parent
1,699 Points

I should've been more patient with myself, figured it out. Thanks anyway!

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

This might be too simplistic an answer but try setting your background-color property to 

background: #f5f5f5;