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HTML How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Write CSS Media Queries

cant get the media query to work help please

i dont know why media query isnt working????

css/main.css
@media screen and (max-width: 480px) {
  h1 {
    font-size: 2.5em;
  }
}

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;
}

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;
}

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

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}

.contact-info {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}

.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}

2 Answers

Marco van Vemden
Marco van Vemden
12,553 Points

Try putting the media query at the bottom of the css file. Css is read from top to bottom. The rule that is set last, is the one that will be executed.

In this case, the

h1 {
  font-family: Changa One, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

will overwrite the font-size set in the media query.

Thanks brother just found out

Mark Dekin
Mark Dekin
26,839 Points

Marco nailed this one, but just to add and give advise, do mobile first approach. To where you would start the site at mobile size write the CSS for it there, and once you are done, on the bottom, you begin your media queries of min-width. So all the stuff you write first will carry throughout the site and will only have to be over written as the sizes increase. Hope this helps?