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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Display Modes Display Modes Challenge

Ivo Stoynovski
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Ivo Stoynovski
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 8,580 Points
Posted by Ivo Stoynovski
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Ivo Stoynovski
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 8,580 Points

Hello, can you help out with this one. I don't see issues with displaying the .main-logo

.main-logo{ display:inline-block; {

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Display Modes</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="main-wrapper">  
        <header class="main-header">
            <h1 class="main-logo"><a href="#">My Work</a></h1>
            <ul class="main-nav">
                <li><a href="#">Design</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Coding</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Writing</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Hire Me!</a></li>
            </ul>
        </header>
        <div class="primary col">
            <h1>I'm a Front-end Designer</h1>
            <p>I design beautiful user interfaces, then bring them to life with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I love including personal photographs of nature, people and everyday things in my designs.</p>
            <p>If you need a front-end designer for your next project, <a href="#">take a look at my work</a>, then <a href="#">get in touch</a>!</p>
        </div>
        <div class="secondary col">
            <h2>I Also Write</h2>
            <p>I like teaching others about the latest in web technology. So when I'm not designing or coding websites &amp; apps, you'll find me writing <a href="#">articles for my blog</a>.</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.main-header{
  padding:5px;
  {

.main-logo{
  display:inline-block;
  {
    .main-nav{
  display:inline-block;
  {
    .main-nav li{
  display:inline-block;
  {

2 Answers

Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points
Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points

Hi Ivo, your CSS is wrong. In CSS, your rules must start with opening curly brackets and end with closing curly brackets. Like this {} and not {{. In this case, you have opening curly brackets everywhere, and no closing curly brackets.

Your code should be like this:

.main-header {
  padding: 5px;
  } /* End the declaration with a CLOSING curly bracket. */

.main-logo {
  display: inline-block;
  } /* Closing curly bracket */

.main-nav {
  display: inline-block;
  } /* Closing curly bracket */

.main-nav li {
  display: inline-block;
  } /* Closing curly bracket */
Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

It looks like what you're doing instead of closing your style rules you're effectively nesting selectors inside each other.

A style rule looks like this 

selector {
keyword: value;
}

So it's closed with a matching curly brace. {} Hope this helps. :-)