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Joshua Harman
8,821 PointsWhat happens if there are more than 2 columns? Or does the float feature only allow 2 columns by nature?
gallery li {
float: left; width: 45%; margin: 2.5%; background-color: #f5f5f5; color: #bdc3c7; }
3 Answers
Kevin Korte
28,149 PointsAs mentioned, you can float as many elements as you want. In this example, the width and margins equal 50%, which two equals 100%.
You could float 100 elements with a width of 1%, it still would equal 100% of the width of the floated elements container.
Peter Smith
12,347 PointsYou can definitely have more than two columns! (In fact, if I remember right later in the lessons Nick takes you through how to make three).
The amount of columns is being determined by
width: 45%;
margin: 2.5%;
Modify those percentages and see what happens (i.e. width 25%)
Stephen Bolton
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,933 PointsYou can have as many objects floating as there is space. After that if you keep floating objects they go down to the next line. You can think of having the screen at 100% width once your elements + Padding + border + margin add up to 100% then a new line is created. So if you have really small content you could create a 10 column website (I don't think that would be advisable though).