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

Posted by Chrishaun Byrom
Chrishaun Byrom
1,203 Points

Left - Top - Bottom - Right Margins. What am I doing wrong?

Ok. So I selceted the nav element and the nested <ul> and placed the margins as so: margin: 0 10px 0 10px;... It won't register with the test. How wrong am I in coding this?

3 Answers

Chrishaun Byrom
Chrishaun Byrom
1,203 Points
Chrishaun Byrom
Chrishaun Byrom
1,203 Points

Ya know what? I just figured it out by going to my first workspace and looking at my code. Thanks anyways guys!

Jacob Miller
Jacob Miller
12,466 Points
Jacob Miller
Jacob Miller
12,466 Points

Margin values go like this: top right bottom left, or you can do a shorthand like this: top & bottom left & right. So you can complete that challenge by writing either this:

nav ul {
    margin: 0 10px 0 10px;
}

or this:

nav ul {
    margin: 0 10px;
}
Jeremy Germenis
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Points
Jeremy Germenis
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Points

It probably wants the short code version of two declarations instead of four.

Your doing --> top right bottom left

It wants --> top/bottom left/right