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HTML How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Write CSS Media Queries

Posted by william Murray
william Murray
1,337 Points

Code Challenge

I cannot pass the code challenge for media queries. I am not sure what is going on. Any takers?

css/main.css 
@media  screen and (min-width: 480px)
{ h1 { font-size: 2.5em} }

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;
}

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;
}

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

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

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

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}

.contact-info {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}

.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}
Rasmus Akselsen
Rasmus Akselsen
4,056 Points
Rasmus Akselsen
Rasmus Akselsen
4,056 Points

@media screen and (min-width: 480px) { h1 { font-size: 2.5em; } }

You are missing the semicolon efter font-size.

And you need to add at the bottom of the file, otherwise the css will change the font-size back to 1.75em further down. because of the cascading in CSS.

2 Answers

Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points
Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

Hey William!

As Ramus Akselsen has pointed out, you are missing out a semicolon after the CSS attribute, which may affect the challenge.

As well as this, further on in the CSS file, the h1 element has a new font-size applied to it:

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

Therefore, due to the cascading nature of CSS, this will override your media query you have just wrote at the top.

To fix the issue and pass the challenge, write your media query beneath this selector, or at the bottom of the style file so that the challenge passes.

Hope it helps and if you run into any more issues, feel free to give me a shout :)

william Murray
william Murray
1,337 Points
william Murray
william Murray
1,337 Points

Thank you, both!