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

Posted by William Darche
William Darche
1,730 Points

I have to add the display option display: inline-block; but it's not working. Maybe i'm doing something wrong.

I added the display option to my nav element like this.

nav ul { display: inline-block; }

Why is that incorrect?

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;
}

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 {
   margin-top: 0;
   margin-bottom: 0;
   margin-left: 10px;
   margin-right: 10px;
   padding: 0;
   list-style: none;
   display: inline-block;
 }

1 Answer

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

Hi William Darche, there is nothing wrong with your css, you are just applying the display: inline-block to the wrong element. The code challenge is asking for you to select the list items (li) within the nav (nav). So your code should look like this:

nav li { display: inline-block; }

In the code you posted, you are selecting the parent of the list items or just the list itself