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CSS CSS Layout Basics Getting Started with CSS Layout Layout Wrapper Challenge

Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points
Posted by Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points

set the wrapper's width to 80% of the border width then use margina to center the wrapper in the browser

isnt that what i did?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Getting Started with CSS Layout</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
    <body>
    <div class="container"> 
        <header>
            <h1>Best City Guide</h1>
        </header>

        <div class="main">
            <h2>Welcome!</h2>
            <p>Dessert toffee chocolate lollipop fruitcake cake sweet. Pudding cotton candy chocolate pudding liquorice jelly marzipan. Muffin gummies topping lollipop. Caramels chocolate cake donut liquorice.</p>
            <p>Cake sesame snaps sweet tart candy canes tiramisu I love oat cake chocolate bar. Jelly beans pastry brownie sugar plum pastry bear claw tiramisu tootsie roll.</p>
        </div>
        <footer>
            <p>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City.</p>
        </footer>
    </div>
    </body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.container {
width: 80%
  margin: 0 center;
}

2 Answers

Robert Tyree
Robert Tyree
13,335 Points
Robert Tyree
Robert Tyree
13,335 Points

Gotcha. Hm, have you tried this?

margin: auto;
Robert Tyree
Robert Tyree
13,335 Points
Robert Tyree
Robert Tyree
13,335 Points

Hi there,

I think you might just be missing the semicolon after your width rule.

.container {
width: 80%;
Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points
Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points

u got that the part that i dont get is that they just want me to center the margin

Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points
Raeed Sabree
Raeed Sabree
10,664 Points

u got that the part that i dont get is that they just want me to center the margin