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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Portfolio

Washington Bertrand
Washington Bertrand
1,562 Points

Hi, I would like to know why my right margin is still smaller than my left margin.

I have followed every step that Nick has done in the video but I still cant figure out why my right margin is still smaller than the left margin?

Help Please?

/**************************************
GENERAL
***************************************/

body {
  font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
} 

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

/*************************************
HEADING
**************************************/

header {
  margin: 0 0 30px 0;
  padding: 5px 0 0 0;
  width: 100%;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1 {
  font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  margin: -5px 0 0 ;
  font-weight:normal;
}

/*************************************
NAVIGATION
**************************************/

nav {
  text-align: center;
  padding: 10px 0;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
}

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

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

/*************************************
FOOTER
**************************************/

footer {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  text-align: center;
  clear: both;
  padding-top: 50px;
  color: #ccc;
}

/*************************************
PAGE: PORTFOLIO
**************************************/

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li a p {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5%;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  color: #bdc3c7
}

/************************************
COLORS
**************************************/

/* site body */
body {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #999;
}

/* green header */
header {
  background: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599a68;
}

/* nav background on mobile */
nav {
  background: #599a68;
}

/* logo text */
h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

/* link */
a {
  color: #6ab47b; 
}

/* nav link */
nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}

/* selected nav link */
nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

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2 Answers

Joey Ward
PLUS
Joey Ward
Courses Plus Student 24,778 Points

The first question would be - which element's margin are you referring to? At first glance, I don't see any code that would add extra margin or padding to the right and not the left.

Try this - In your browser, hit F12 to open up your developer window. You can use the DOM Explorer to select each of your elements and inspect the layout. You can use this tool to see numerical values that represent the margin and padding for each element in the DOM. That should help you identify at least which element the unexpected margin or padding is being applied to. You can usually use that information to correct the spacing issue.