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

Posted by Micah Ng
Micah Ng
Courses Plus Student 479 Points

How do you set the top and bottom margins to 0, and set the right and left to 10px?

??? { margin: ???????????; }

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 a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

nav li {
  margin: 0 10px;
}

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

Robert Zeno
Robert Zeno
4,660 Points

Hi Micah,

To set the margin to 0 for the top and bottom but 10 for left and right you can format it like this:

margin: 0 10px 0 10px;

The best way to remember it is that it is Top Left Bottom Right or TLBR

Robert

Micah Ng
Micah Ng
Courses Plus Student 479 Points

Thank you!

Craig Campbell
Craig Campbell
14,428 Points
Craig Campbell
Craig Campbell
14,428 Points

And if you want to be more verbose, you could always fall back on:

margin-left: 10px;
margin-right:10px;

not specifying margin-top and margin-bottom means they will be zero. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that assumption!

Robert Zeno
Robert Zeno
4,660 Points

You are correct Craig!