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

Nan Jiang
Nan Jiang
4,189 Points

in the 4th part of "create a horizontal lists of links", it is padding:15px 10px;?

in the 4th part of "create a horizontal lists of links", it is padding:15px 10px;? why it continually tells me the top padding should be 15px?

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: β€˜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: 0 10px;
  padding:0;
  list-style:none;
}
nav ul li{
display: inline-block;
  font-weight:800;

  padding:15px 10px 15px 10px;}

1 Answer

Erik McClintock
Erik McClintock
45,783 Points

Nan,

That task wants you to set the font-weight and padding properties on the links (i.e. the a tags) inside the nav element, not the list items (i.e. the li tags). You have:

/* you're setting the right properties, but on the wrong elements (this selects the list items, not the links) */
nav ul li{
display: inline-block;
  font-weight:800;

  padding:15px 10px 15px 10px;}

You need:

/* selector and style for the list items */
nav ul li {
    display: inline-block;
}

/* new selector and styles for the links */
nav ul li a {
    font-weight:800;
    padding:15px 10px 15px 10px;  
}

Erik