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

Janneke Polderman
Janneke Polderman
7,157 Points
Posted by Janneke Polderman
Janneke Polderman
7,157 Points

Is there really something wrong with my code?

This is the task: Select the unordered list nested inside the nav element. Remove the margins on the top and bottom. Set the margins on the left and right to 10px.

This is what I did: nav { margin: 0 10px; }

And I got a Bummer. I also tried this, but still no luck: nav { margin: 0 10px 0 px; }

What am I doing wrong?

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 {
  margin: 0 10px;
}

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;
}
Irving Amador
Irving Amador
7,488 Points
Irving Amador
Irving Amador
7,488 Points

Have a look at how they select the 'a' taginside the nav, you can do it similar just using the 'li' tag instead.

4 Answers

Michael Davis
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Michael Davis
Courses Plus Student 12,508 Points
Michael Davis
Michael Davis
Courses Plus Student 12,508 Points

This is the task: Select the unordered list nested inside the nav element

And this is what you used:

nav { margin: 0 10px; }

What you did was select only the nav element, instead you need to select the ul that is nested inside of the nav element.

Try using the ul selector immediately following your nav selector to select the nested ul element:

nav ul{
  margin: 0 10px;
}

This selects the ul element that is a child of the nav element, which is exactly what the test case is looking for.

Irving Amador
Irving Amador
7,488 Points
Irving Amador
Irving Amador
7,488 Points

I think you are not selecting the list 'li' tag inside the nav, you are instead selecting the nav tag only.

Janneke Polderman
Janneke Polderman
7,157 Points
Janneke Polderman
Janneke Polderman
7,157 Points

Thanks! your right, I overlooked that ;)

Marina Shumeyko
Marina Shumeyko
5,647 Points
Marina Shumeyko
Marina Shumeyko
5,647 Points 
nav li {
  margin: 0 10px;
}
Mirza Sisic
Mirza Sisic
1,467 Points
Mirza Sisic
Mirza Sisic
1,467 Points

According to this css validator you have 2 errors: http://www.css-validator.org