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

Posted by Gary Cellon
Gary Cellon
1,348 Points

Does anybody else have trouble, with the interface, in the code challenges?

When I try to enter code to answer the questions the first line of code I enter always has the red underline and gives me an error message, even though I know it's correct.

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 ul {
  margin: 0 10px 0 10px;
  text-style: none;
  padding: 155x 10px 15px 10px;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 15px 10px 15px 10px;
  weight: 800;
}

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;
}

2 Answers

Tyrell Jentink
Tyrell Jentink
8,415 Points

No, that usually indicates an actual error.

Where are you having the problem? Is it in the font-family deceleration? If so, are those quotes, '', or tic marks, ``? Single quotes are on the same key as double quotes, while tic marks are on the same key as the tilde, ~, and are not equivalent.

Tyrell Jentink
Tyrell Jentink
8,415 Points

Also check the padding on the nav ul. Your missing a 'p' with your 'px'.

Also, there is no property called "text-style"; You were probably looking for "text-decoration"

Also, it's "font-weight", not just "weight".

Basically, if the text is colored white, then something isn't declared correctly.

Gary Cellon
Gary Cellon
1,348 Points

Thanks. I noticed those mistakes after I left the message. I'm having a lot of trouble reading the text because of the color scheme, also I'm having to use speech recognition software to enter my messages and code because of a disability. I wish treehouse would use the color scheme they use in the forums code quotes as the color scheme for the tests.

Gary Cellon
Gary Cellon
1,348 Points
Gary Cellon
Gary Cellon
1,348 Points

I'll have to check and see about the quote marks. What I have written in workspace works. It's when I'm entering it in the tests that is giving me trouble.

Tyrell Jentink
Tyrell Jentink
8,415 Points

This is probably better as a comment, than a separate answer.