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

Posted by Julie Ogden
Julie Ogden
3,330 Points

"Set padding of links to 15px for top & bottom, 10px for others.": nav li { padding: 15px 10px 15px 10px}; whats wrong?

I didn't realize I would have more space to elaborate! haha oops. Anyway, on this quiz it asks you to set the padding for the links inside the nav to 15px on top and bottom and 10px on each side. I've written this as (some code emitted for clarity):

nav li { padding: 15px 10px 15px 10px; }

I get an error saying that the top padding needs to be 15px. What am I doing wrong? I've tried omitting the last two modifiers, but got the same error. Same as when I placed the padding in nav a. Help! :)

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 ul {
  margin: 0 10px;
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px 15px 10px;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: ‘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;
}

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Julie;

Task 4 is wanting you to apply the formatting to the links inside the nav element. Your code is good, just being used in the wrong spot. :wink:

Happy coding,

Ken

Julie Ogden
Julie Ogden
3,330 Points

Awesome, I did figure it out. Thanks for the help, Ken!