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

Posted by Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

I did it right the first time and now I can't seem to do.

Can you please help me out with this? It would be very much appreciated.

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 px;
}

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;
}
Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

I'm supposed to set a nav list with top and bottom margins to 0 and right and left to 10px. It keeps giving me an error mesage.

4 Answers

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points 
nav ul{
  margin: 0 10px 0 10px;
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
}
nav li{
  display: inline-block; 
}
nav a{
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

You need to use the nav ul selector to select everything within the list.

Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

Thx, I don't know what I was thinking. But thanks for taking time to give feedback on this.

Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

Thx for your help!

Mitchell Fargher
Mitchell Fargher
11,634 Points
Mitchell Fargher
Mitchell Fargher
11,634 Points

So you want to select the unordered list which is nested in the nav element. Then set the margin to 0 for top and bottom and 10px for left and right.

To do this you simply type:

nav ul { margin: 0 10px; }

The first number (0) sets the top and bottom margin and the second (10px) will set the left and right margin.

Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

I appreciate your time in answering this for me.

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

No problem, glad to help :)

Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points
Marguerite Holden
Marguerite Holden
6,075 Points

Thx, today it seems obvious how to do it. You explain very clearly and concise.