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CSS How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Build a Three Column Layout

Posted by Melissa Lang
Melissa Lang
Courses Plus Student 2,566 Points

Icons are overlapping in the first column

My contact icons are overlapping in the 1st column when screen resizes to a 2 column layout.

Emma Newton
Emma Newton
6,721 Points
Emma Newton
Emma Newton
6,721 Points

Can you paste your code here? It will be easier to see what the problem is that way.

Jason Boyer
Jason Boyer
1,339 Points

I don't know if this is your problem, but I had that sort of issue on my site and it was the result of an error in the section tags in contact.html.

I had: ''' <section id="primary"> <h3>General Information</h3> <p>I am interested in development.</p> </section> <h3>Contact Details</h3> <ul class = "contact-info"> <li class="phone"><a href="tel:555-5555">555-5555</a></li> <li class="mail"><a href="mailto:jason@example">jason@example.com</a></li> <li class="twitter"><a href = "http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?screen_name=tweetledee">twitter</a></li> </ul> <section id="secondary"> </section> '''

So the contact details were not included in the secondary section. When I changed it to the following it worked fine. You may want to double check your sections and see if you are running into a similar problem.

''' <section id="primary"> <h3>General Information</h3> <p>I am interested in development.</p> </section> <section id="secondary"> <h3>Contact Details</h3> <ul class = "contact-info"> <li class="phone"><a href="tel:555-5555">555-5555</a></li> <li class="mail"><a href="mailto:jason@example">jason@example.com</a></li> <li class="twitter"><a href = "http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?screen_name=tweetledee">twitter</a></li> </ul> </section> '''

dominique
dominique
2,178 Points

For future users: there might be an error with the placement of the section tags as explained in Jason's post, or there might be a simple typo with the "secondary" id on either the HTML or the CSS document. It's easy to make a couple of hasty spelling typos while concentrating on syntax, so check this too if something doesn't look right.