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HTML How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Make an About Page

Posted by heatherglasier
heatherglasier
2,011 Points

How do I select the image and set it to block? I don't get this. Could someone please explain this to me?

I am having troubles in a code challenge.

about.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html" class="selected">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <img src="img/gratt.png" alt="Photograph of Gratt." class="profile-photo">
        <p>I am a student at SGCHS looking into becoming a library technician.</p>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2014 Nick Pettit.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
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;
}

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

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#profile-photo {
Display:block;
}

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

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

nav ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}
Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points
Bogdan Cabaj
Bogdan Cabaj
16,349 Points

Hi Heather,

Teamtreehouse has CSS Selectors course.

Also, please check out CSS Diner

2 Answers

Hadi Khalili
Hadi Khalili
7,969 Points
Hadi Khalili
Hadi Khalili
7,969 Points

You have set 'profile-photo' as a class but have used id marker (#) to select.

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
}

hope that helps

heatherglasier
heatherglasier
2,011 Points

ok thank you but why do i have to have a "." anyways? Just curious about this?

Hadi Khalili
Hadi Khalili
7,969 Points
Hadi Khalili
Hadi Khalili
7,969 Points

Heather Glasier dot (.) is used to select class. hash (#) is used to select id. It is the way to tell the css interpreter that you are referring to the class or id.

heatherglasier
heatherglasier
2,011 Points

oh ok thank you that is very helpful.

Aemiro Allison
Aemiro Allison
480 Points
Aemiro Allison
Aemiro Allison
480 Points

Ah, you almost have it. Your forgetting to close your image element after class="profile-photo".

A image element should be closed with "/>".

Example: <img src="..." alt="..." class="..." />

Hadi Khalili
Hadi Khalili
7,969 Points
Hadi Khalili
Hadi Khalili
7,969 Points

Aemiro Allison using '>' or '/>' is not the problem. He has selected profile-photo as an id selector. (#profile-photo) it should be '.profile-photo'