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CSS CSS Layout Basics Positioning Page Content CSS Positioning Challenge

Ran Pur
Ran Pur
536 Points
Posted by Ran Pur
Ran Pur
536 Points

I am confused by the question.

I am unclear on exactly what I need to do here. I do not understand the question.

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

.logo {
    position:absolute;
  top: -45px;
  left: 125px;
}
.card{
position:absolute;
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>CSS Positioning</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="card">
            <img class="logo" src="city-logo.svg" alt="logo">
            <h2>Best City Guide</h2>
            <p>Cheesecake oat cake marshmallow. Bonbon pastry apple pie danish donut bonbon marshmallow caramels. Bear claw chocolate bar lemon drops. Carrot cake jelly beans jelly beans pie.</p>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi Ran, let me go through each of the steps with you, as there are 3 in the code challenge.

First, you need to select the element with the class of logo and give it absolutely positioning, which you've done.

Secondly, you set your position offsets from left and the top, which you've also done.

Where you've done wrong is you've set .card to also have absolute positioning. In order to set the context for .logo, you need to give .logo relative positioning. What this means is .logo will be set to move within .card and not the root element.

Ran Pur
Ran Pur
536 Points
Ran Pur
Ran Pur
536 Points

Thank you. I took a break when I got stuck and reread the instructions after reading your post and it clicked. It even says "relative" in the directions. Just me overlooking the small details. Thank you for the fast response and helping me.

Shung Chen
Shung Chen
6,526 Points
Shung Chen
Shung Chen
6,526 Points

the parent element with class .card have to be relative so that your .logo has something to relative to (otherwise it will pick the body element)