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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Create a Horizontal List of Links

sailor winkelman
sailor winkelman
2,603 Points
Posted by sailor winkelman
sailor winkelman
2,603 Points

How do I make the top padding for nav links 15px? I have: nav li{ padding: 15px 10px; }

I have tried switching the positions around like:

padding: 10px 15px or padding 15px 15px 10px 10px.

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

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

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

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}
nav ul{
  list-style:none;
  margin:0 10px;
  padding:0;
}

nav li{
  display:inline-block;
  font-weight:800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

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

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

3 Answers

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Hi Sailor,

The challenge asks you to place the font-weight and padding properties in a new selector.

Select the links inside the nav element and set their font weight to 800. Then, set padding on the top and bottom to 15 pixels. Set the padding on the left and right to 10 pixels.

Since it said select the links, you know it refers to the <a> element. So, that's what we should target (and erase these same properties from the nav li selector):

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}
sailor winkelman
sailor winkelman
2,603 Points
sailor winkelman
sailor winkelman
2,603 Points

thanks marcus! turns out i forgot to select links with 'a'. my bad!

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

If you want to go ahead and mark the answer as best answer, we can set this question as resolved! :)

Adam Overby
Adam Overby
711 Points
Adam Overby
Adam Overby
711 Points

Did the same thing. Thanks Marcus