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

Magnus Rydberg
Magnus Rydberg
4,683 Points
Posted by Magnus Rydberg
Magnus Rydberg
4,683 Points

How to correct earlier errors and omissions in the code challenges

I realize that earlier errors and omissions must have slipped trough to the next challenge and so on.

In my example I have a navigation area that is all white although I have

set nav a { color: #fff;}

I had to add simle nav selector just now and give it a background-red to see any part of the navigation

I would like to troubleshoot myself and maybe compare with the code in my Workspace editor

But since I do not see the HTML that the CSS in the code challenge relate to I am not sure how to move on.

What would be the best way for me to clean up the disorder in the code challenge at this point?

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 {
 background-color:red;
}


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%;
}

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

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}
Juan Aviles
Juan Aviles
12,795 Points
Juan Aviles
Juan Aviles
12,795 Points

Have you tried downloading the files from the course? I used to use Workspaces and follow along with each course that way, but found that I actually prefer to download the working files for each course, and keep them on my drive for reference. I know this may not help you in this situation though.

2 Answers

Joshua Veazey
Joshua Veazey
6,190 Points
Joshua Veazey
Joshua Veazey
6,190 Points

Hi Magnus, Juan is right. Find a good code editor like Adobe Dreamweaver "I miss you Micromedia!" or the one I use, sublime text 2. Its free, and very easy to use. And I like Juan suggested, download the course file first before you start on each video. I hope this helps!

Magnus Rydberg
Magnus Rydberg
4,683 Points
Magnus Rydberg
Magnus Rydberg
4,683 Points

Hi Juan Hi Josh

Thank you both for your suggestions. That helped.

All long I have been following along with the workspace text editor. *(I have the editors Brackets and Notepad ++ but

but I find that the internal workspace works fine with me.)

The code I have used in the workspace alonf with the course is fine. It is with the code challenges I made some earlier errors. Anyway I did download the project files as you suggested and used the main.css into the code challenge. It is a bit of a shortcut as I didn't troubleshoot and solve the errors on my own but at least this helped me start from scratch.