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Posted by taniamercado
taniamercado
2,261 Points

Hi! My clearfix did not work for the footer :(. Could you please help me?

Hi! The footer for wide screens stills collapses with the third column. Could you please revise my code and let me know where the mistake is:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Best City Guide</title> <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css"> </head> <body>

<header class="main-header">
<div class="container clearfix">
    <h1 class="name"><a href="#">Best City Guide</a></h1>
    <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>
 </div> <!--/.container-->  

</header><!--/.main-header-->   

<div class="banner">
    <img class="logo" src="img/city-logo.svg" alt="City">
    <h1 class="headline">The Best City</h1>
    <span class="tagline">The best drinks and eats in the best city ever.</span>
</div><!--/.banner-->

<div clas="container clearfix">
<div class="secondary col">
    <h2>Welcome!</h2>
    <p>Everything in this city is worth waiting in line for.</p>
    <p>Cupcake ipsum dolor sit. Amet chocolate cake gummies jelly beans candy bonbon brownie candy. Gingerbread powder muffin. Icing cotton candy. Croissant icing pie ice cream brownie I love cheesecake cookie. Pastry chocolate pastry jelly croissant.</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. Tootsie roll wafer I love chocolate donuts.</p>
</div><!--/.secondary-->

<div class="primary col">
    <h2>Great food</h2>
    <img class="feat-img" src="img/treats.svg" alt="Drinks and eats">
    <p>Croissant macaroon pie brownie. Cookie marshmallow liquorice gingerbread caramels toffee I love chocolate. Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum. Marzipan toffee drag&#233;e chocolate bar candy toffee pudding I love. Gummi bears pie gingerbread lollipop.</p>
</div><!--/.primary-->


<div class="tertiary col">
    <h2>How to get here</h2>
    <p><strong>Plane: </strong>Tiramisu caramels gummies chupa chups lollipop muffin. Jujubes chocolate caramels cheesecake brownie lollipop drag&#233;e cheesecake.</p>
    <p><strong>Train: </strong>Pie apple pie pudding I love wafer toffee liquorice sesame snaps lemon drops. Lollipop gummi bears dessert muffin I love fruitcake toffee pie.</p>
    <p><strong>Car: </strong>Jelly cotton candy bonbon jelly-o jelly-o I love. I love sugar plum chocolate cake pie I love pastry liquorice.</p>
</div><!--/.tertiary--> 

<footer class="main-footer clearfix">
    <span>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City Ever.</span>
</footer>

 </div> <!--/.container-->

</body> </html>

CSS

  • { box-sizing: border-box; }

body { font-family: 'Varela Round', sans-serif; line-height: 1.6; color: #3a3a3a; }

p { font-size: .95em; margin-bottom: 1.8em; }

h2, h3, a { color: #093a58; }

h2, h3 { margin-top: 0; }

a { text-decoration: none; }

img { max-width: 100%; }

/* ================================= Base Layout Styles ==================================== */

/* ---- Navigation ---- */

.name { font-size: 1.25em; margin:0; }

.name a, .main-nav { text-align:center; display:block; padding:10px 15px; }

.main-nav { margin-top:5px; }

.tagline { padding-bottom:5px; }

.main-nav a { font-size: .95em; color: #3acec2; text-transform: uppercase; padding:10px; }

.main-nav a:hover { color: #093a58; }

/* ---- Layout Containers ---- */

.main-header { padding-top:.5em; padding-bottom: .5em; }

.banner, .main-footer { text-align:center; }

.banner { color: #fff; background: #3acec2; padding:3.2em 0; margin-bottom:60px; }

.col { padding-right: 1em; padding-left: 1em; }

}

.main-footer { background: #d9e4ea; padding: 2em 0; margin-top: 30px;

}

/* ---- Page Elements ---- */

.logo { text-align:center; width: 190px; }

.headline { margin-bottom:0; }

/* =================================

==================================== */

/* ================================= Media Queries ==================================== */

/* Target viewport sizes less than 576px */

@media (min-width: 769px) {

.container { width:90%; margin:0 auto; }

.name, .col { float:left; }

.primary, .secondary { width: 50%; }

.main-nav { float:right; }

.main-nav li { display: inline-block; margin-left: 15px; }

.tagline { font-size:1.4em; }

}

@media (min-width: 1025px) {

.container { width:80%; max-width:1150px; }

.primary { width:40%; }

.secondary, .tertiary { width:30%; }

}

/* ---- Float clearfix ---- */

.clearfix::after {
    content: " ";
    display: table;
    clear: both;
}

}

2 Answers

Gábor Szalai
Gábor Szalai
17,881 Points
Gábor Szalai
Gábor Szalai
17,881 Points

Hi! You misspelled the class attribute in the div that contains the columns. Add an "s" and it will work! :)

<div clas="container clearfix"> <div class="secondary col">

taniamercado
taniamercado
2,261 Points
taniamercado
taniamercado
2,261 Points

Thank you :)!