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

Posted by Anonymous User
Anonymous User
Courses Plus Student 416 Points

Rules being completely ignored or something? What is going on?

My #courses(equivalent of #gallery) rules aren't working, what is going wrong here

here is the html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
      <title>CodeAble | Learn To Code For Free!</title>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
      <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400,400italic,700italic,700,800' rel='stylesheet'
      type='text/css'>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>CodeAble</h1>
        <h2>Learn To Code For Free!</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Courses</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="courses">
          <l>
            <a href="Code Images/15996662264_4088cd1e53_o.png">
              <img src="Code Images/15996662264_4088cd1e53_o.png" alt="">
              <p>--Learn JavaScript!</p>
            </a>
          </l>
          <l>
            <a href="Code Images/csharp.png">
              <img src="Code Images/csharp.png" alt="">
              <p>--Learn C#!</p>
            </a>
          </l>
          <l>
            <a href="Code Images/swift-logo-hero.jpg.">
              <img src="Code Images/swift-logo-hero.jpg" alt="">
              <p>--Learn Swift!</p>
            </a>
          </l>
          <l>
            <a href="Code Images/Ruby_Jewel.png">
              <img src="Code Images/Ruby_Jewel.png" alt="">
              <p>--Learn Ruby!</p>
            </a>
          </l>
          <l>
            <a href="Code Images/python.png">
              <img src="Code Images/python.png" alt="">
              <p>--Learn Python!</p>
            </a>
          </l>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com"><img src="Treehouse Images/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com"><img src="Treehouse Images/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2016 CodeAble.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

and here is the css

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

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

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

Code Images {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#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;
}

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

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

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

#courses li {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

#courses li a p {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5%;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  color: #bdc3c7
}

body {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #999;
}

header {
  background: #6ab47b;
  border: #599a68;
}

nav {
  background: #599a68;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

a {
  color: #6ab47b;
}

nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}

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

2 Answers

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points
Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

look inside 

<ul id="courses">

look at what you wrote instead of li hehe

Anonymous User
Anonymous User
Courses Plus Student 416 Points

have i just been writing L the whole time?

Dustin Honeck
Dustin Honeck
12,504 Points
Dustin Honeck
Dustin Honeck
12,504 Points

You are also missing a semicolon after the color value. Just so you know :)

#courses li a p {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5%;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  color: #bdc3c7
}