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

Posted by Prafful Gupta
Prafful Gupta
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nth child selector in responsive design video

Instead of 4n, argument should be 3n+1, because 1st element of 2nd row is 4th but 1st element of 3rd row is not 8th but 7th.

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James Barnett
James Barnett
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James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Check out the Teacher's Notes section below the video.

Instead, we want to select the first item in each row. A more robust solution is to use the selector :nth-child(3n + 1) instead. This will select every 3rd item plus 1. In other words, this will select the 4th item, 7th item, 10th item, and so on.