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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Style the Basic Elements

josh harvey
josh harvey
354 Points
Posted by josh harvey
josh harvey
354 Points

What is wrong with my value?

Its asking me to use the property margin and to use the value center and that is just what i am doing but it keeps telling me to check the margin value.

3 Answers

wayne nixon
wayne nixon
3,271 Points
wayne nixon
wayne nixon
3,271 Points

try this {margin: 0 auto;}

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

What does your code look like?

josh harvey
josh harvey
354 Points
josh harvey
josh harvey
354 Points

a { text-decoration: none; }

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: center; }

Andrew Hickman
Andrew Hickman
11,602 Points
Andrew Hickman
Andrew Hickman
11,602 Points

You almost have it! It's asking you to select the ID 'wrapper', so your declaration should read:

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

So, put the hashtag in front of 'wrapper', and center it using margin: 0 auto