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HTML How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Write CSS Media Queries

I can't pass the media query code challenge. I did exactly as the video and directions indicated yet it does not work!

I did the following:

@media screen and (min-width: 480px) { h1 { font-size: 2.5em; } }

Where did I go wrong?

css/main.css
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}
@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {
  h1 {
    font-size: 2.5em;
  }
}
#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;
}

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;
}

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

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}

.contact-info {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}

.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points

When CSS rules of equal specificity are in conflict, whichever one occurs last will take precedence.

:point_right: Try adding you media query to the bottom of the CSS file.

Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points

Hi Kaleb,

Your code is perfect - I suspect the problem is where you're putting it. The browser reads your CSS rules from top to bottom and applies them. If you write your media query first, the browser sets h1 font size to 2.5em (assuming the screen size is big enough), then when it gets to your normal h1 rule, it happily sets all h1 font sizes to 1.75em, erasing what your media query did.

Media queries should be at the bottom of a css file (or in a separate css file that's loaded after the main one. This is the same reason we load normalize.css before our main stylesheet.

Happy coding! :thumbsup:

-Greg