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Sebastian Key
Courses Plus Student 6,410 PointsIs inline-block necessary for the list items?
Is Inline-block necessary for the list-items? the li's don't have any height or width explicitly defined. Tried just inline and it worked
2 Answers
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 Pointsinline-block is necessary for adding top/bottom margins and padding to the links and declaring the height, as well as a couple other things. You get a little more control over the list items with it. You might not always need it. :)
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsThere are other ways, such as puttng a float left on all your list items such as
ul li {
float: left;
padding-right; 15px;
}
would put list items left to right rather than on top of each other. But inline-block for me does the job better. :-)
Sebastian Key
Courses Plus Student 6,410 PointsSebastian Key
Courses Plus Student 6,410 PointsThanks Ryan!
Does that mean you can't add top/bottom margin to links if it is "display: inline"