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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Image Captions

Posted by Corey Trach
Corey Trach
846 Points

Images are not scaling and remain full size.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>Corey Trach | Designer</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
        <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
    </head>
    <body>
        <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Corey Trach</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
        </header>
        <div id="wrapper">
            <section>
                <ul id="gallery">
                    <li>
                        <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
                            <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
                            <p>Experimentation with color and texture</p>
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
                            <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
                            <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop</p>
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
                            <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
                            <p>Trying to create an 80's stye of glows</p>
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
                            <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
                            <p>Drips created using photoshop brushes</p>
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
                            <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
                            <p>Creating shapes with repetition</p>
                        </a>
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </section>
            <footer>
                <a href="http://twitter.com"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
                <a href="http://facebook.com"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>
                <p>&copy; 2015 Corey Trach.</p>
            </footer>
        </div>
        </body>
</html>
Corey Trach
Corey Trach
846 Points 
/*************************
GENERAL
*************************/

body {
    font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

#wrapper {
    max-width: 940px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding:0 5%;
}

a {
    text-decoration:none;   
}

img {
    max-width 100%;
}



/*************************
HEADING
*************************/

#logo {
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0;  
}

h1 {
    font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif;
    margin: 15px 0;
    font-size: 1.75em;
    font-weight: normal;
    line-height: 0.8em;
}

h2 {
    font-size: 0.75em;
    margin: 5px 0 0;
    font-weight: normal;
}



/*************************
NAVIGATION
*************************/

nav {
    text-align: center;
    padding: 10px 0;
    margin: 20px 0 0;
}



/*************************
FOOTER
*************************/

footer {
    font-size: 0.75em;
    text-align: center;
    padding-top: 50px;
    color: #ccc;    
}



/*************************
PAGE: PORTFOLIO
*************************/

#gallery {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;   
}

#gallery li {
    float: left;
    width: 45%;
    margin: 2.5%;
    background-color: #f5f5f5;
    color: #bdc3c7;
}




/*************************
COLORS
*************************/

/* Site Body */
body {
    background-color: #fff;
    color: #999;
}

/* green header */
header {
    background: #6ab47b;
    border-color: #599a68;
}

/* nav background on mobile */
nav {
    background: #599a68;
}

/* Logo text */
h1, h2 {
    color: #fff;
}

/* links */
a {
    color: #6ab47b;
}

/* nav link */
nav a, nav a:visited {
    color: #fff;
}

/* selected nav link */
nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
    color: #32673f;
}

1 Answer

Branden Miller
Branden Miller
7,556 Points

In your main.css, you have

"img { max-width 100%; }"

Your missing ":" after max-width and before 100%

"img { max-width: 100%; }"

Corey Trach
Corey Trach
846 Points

Argghhh so silly, thank you for the response.

Branden Miller
Branden Miller
7,556 Points

No problem! :D Little things like that get me all the time.