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

Posted by Helen Brookes
Helen Brookes
7,549 Points

set padding of nav links to 15 px

For some reason, when I use the padding: 15px 10px; code to set the padding of my nav links to top and bottom 15px and left and right 10px, i get an error from the challenge

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;
}



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

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px;
}

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;
}

3 Answers

Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
31,772 Points

You should write it in nav a instead of nav li.

nav a {
  color: #fff;
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}
Helen Brookes
Helen Brookes
7,549 Points
Helen Brookes
Helen Brookes
7,549 Points

Thanks! This works!

Much appreciated, H

Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
31,772 Points

If you could set it to the best answer that would be great :)

Helen Brookes
Helen Brookes
7,549 Points
Helen Brookes
Helen Brookes
7,549 Points

Done! Much appreciated!