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CSS CSS Layout Basics Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes CSS Display Modes Challenge

Carleen Hall
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Carleen Hall
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Posted by Carleen Hall
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Carleen Hall
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 3,158 Points

Display inline-block

Can some assist me with Challenge Task 2 of 3

The <ul> with the class main-nav is a block-level element by default, so it takes up the full width of its container. Let's set .main-nav to be as wide as the content inside it. Change the display of .main-nav to the display value that generates a block element that doesn't take up a full line.

I thought the answer would have been .main-nave li { display: inline; }

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

header {
  text-align: center;
}
.logo {
  width: 110px;
  margin: auto;
}

.main-nav li {
display: inline-block;

}
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>
            <img class="logo" src="city-logo.svg" alt="logo">
            <ul class="main-nav">
                <li><a href="#">Ice cream</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Donuts</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Tea</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Coffee</a></li>
            </ul>
        </header>
    </div>
    </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Daniel Houghton
Daniel Houghton
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Daniel Houghton
Daniel Houghton
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Sorry, re-read the post... and looked at your code. Its asking you to make all of .main-nav to be inline-block and it looks like you have just selected the list ( .main-nav li )

so your code should look like :

.main-nav { display: inline-block; }

I think that should sort it....if not....i'm still on the basics :)

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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I changed your comment to an answer so that it can be upvoted and/or selected as "Best Answer". Thank you for your help in the Community! :sparkles:

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Daniel Houghton is partially correct. The code he lists is for step 2 of the challenge. However, step 1 of the challenge requests the display type of the list items inside the main-nav class to be altered. The second step requires the display of all of the main-nav class to be altered. To accomplish this, you will need two separate rules. One for .main-nav li and one for .main-nav.

Good luck! :sparkles: