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mohannedshehri
1,101 PointsThe property [ clear ]
In the video we put the clear property right after text-align.
footer {
font-size: 0.75em;
text-align: center;
clear: both;
color: #ccc; /* very light gray*/
padding-top: 50px;
}```
Is it imperative to put it there in this case? Because i tried to put it at the end and it worked for me, and i just want to make sure about it!
Thanks!
2 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsIt's not imperative that it goes right after the text align. In this case, you could put it first, last, whatever inside that declaration. CSS for the most part does not care in what order you put declare your attributes inside of an element declaration like this. There is only one time when the order is imperative. Remember that CSS cascades, so in an easy example, if I had an element with the class box, and I wanted to style it like so.
.box {
height: 150px;
width: 150px;
background: blue;
border: 5px solid green;
background: red;
}
Than that box div would be red, because red is further down the list, and so it overrides our earlier background property of blue.
Jacob Miller
12,466 PointsYou can order your css properties however you want and it won't make a difference.
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsThere is a cascading effect even inside element style declarations. Order does make a difference, sometimes. Just not here in this example.
Jacob Miller
12,466 PointsThanks for the correction. :)
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsMore of a side note than a correction :)