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JavaScript Treehouse Club: JavaScript Car Sounds Background Color, Margin, and Padding

Posted by Ryan Reed
Ryan Reed
Courses Plus Student 1,637 Points

Treehouse Club: JavaScript Challenge Task 3 of 3

In the 'a' element in links change the padding: 10px; }

I have copied and pasted it to look like this and still for 2 days i don't know what the error is. Why is this so simple and yet I still get the task wrong?

css/style.css 
/* Background Color */
html {
  background:  #99E6FF;
}


/* Body */
body {
  margin: 0 auto;
  max-width: 800px;
}


/* Images */
img {
  width: 100%;
}

.car { 
  display:block;
  margin: 40px auto; }
  padding: 0;
}


/* Links */
a {
  background: transparent;
  border: 0;
  display: block;
  float: left;
  margin: 0;
  outline: 0;
  padding: 10px; }
  width: 33%; 
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

  <head>
  <meta name="charset" value="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=0.5, maximum-scale=0.5, minimal-ui">
    <title>Car Sounds</title>

    <!--Style Sheet link-->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
  </head>

  <body>

    <!--Car image -->
    <img src="images/bike.png" class="car" alt="car">


    <!--Button-->
    <a href="javascript:bikeBell();"><img src="images/bikeLock.png" alt="key"></a>


    <!--Audio Files-->
    <audio id="bikeBell" src="sounds/bikeBell.mp3" preload="auto"></audio>


    <!--Javascript-->
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function bikeBell() {
            document.getElementById('bikeBell').play();
        }

    </script>

  </body>

</html>
Cobe Learns
Cobe Learns
25,333 Points

just remove } after padding

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

There's a stray closing brace after the "margin" line:

  margin: 40px auto; }

That causes the "padding" line below it to be ignored.