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CSS CSS Layout Basics Getting Started with CSS Layout Layout Wrapper Challenge

Posted by Edoardo Radaelli
Edoardo Radaelli
3,026 Points

.container{ width : 80% ; margin : 0 auto ; }

I can t get why this doesn t work

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Getting Started with CSS Layout</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
    <body>
    <div class = "container">
        <header>
            <h1>Best City Guide</h1>
        </header>

        <div class="main">
            <h2>Welcome!</h2>
            <p>Dessert toffee chocolate lollipop fruitcake cake sweet. Pudding cotton candy chocolate pudding liquorice jelly marzipan. Muffin gummies topping lollipop. Caramels chocolate cake donut liquorice.</p>
            <p>Cake sesame snaps sweet tart candy canes tiramisu I love oat cake chocolate bar. Jelly beans pastry brownie sugar plum pastry bear claw tiramisu tootsie roll.</p>
        </div>

        <footer>
            <p>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City.</p>
        </footer>
      </div>
    </body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.container{
  width : 80% ;
  margin : 0 auto ; 
}

2 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 Points

Hey there,

the problem in your code is that you have a space between the properties and the following colons. You have to write the colons immediately after the property. Also note that the space between the value and the ";" is not necessary either.

And about what Jim mentioned: Yes, the challenge doesn't ask that but if you're setting the margin to auto you're setting the margin on every side to auto. The margin-top and margin-bottom values compute to zero in this case so that's not the problem why this challenge isn't passing as the result is the same.

This should do it:

/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.container{
  width: 80%;
  margin: 0 auto; 
}

I hope that helps! :)

Jim van Rijsewijk
Jim van Rijsewijk
8,150 Points
Jim van Rijsewijk
Jim van Rijsewijk
8,150 Points

The challenge doesn't ask you to set top and bottom margin so you should use:

margin: auto;

good luck