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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Make a CSS Image Gallery

Posted by anthonymarzec
anthonymarzec
1,683 Points

how do I get the css to allow all images to fill thier parent element.

In Challenge Task 1 of 4 the instruction is to "Add CSS that will allow all images to fill thier parent element. I don't have a clue what to write.

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

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

images {
  max-width: 100%;
  max-height: 100%;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

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

h1 {
  font-family: ‘Changa One’, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

2 Answers

Perry Eising
Perry Eising
12,663 Points
Perry Eising
Perry Eising
12,663 Points

I think you are on a good way here actually. Take a look at your 

images {
  max-width: 100%;
  max-height: 100%;
}

looks like you may already be making things fill out their parent element, but what is missing might be that you are not selecting all images by default.

Niclas Valentiner
Niclas Valentiner
8,947 Points
Niclas Valentiner
Niclas Valentiner
8,947 Points

This. It's a selector problem. It styles all <image> tags, not images.

With that said, you don't need the max-height property. max-width on it's own is plenty as the image will try to keep it's resolution and fill out the height too.

Sarah Dunman
Sarah Dunman
688 Points
Sarah Dunman
Sarah Dunman
688 Points

it should be "img" not the full word "images" in the css code. I hope that helps!

img { max-width: 100%; }