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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Image Captions

nydia subur
nydia subur
1,459 Points
Posted by nydia subur
nydia subur
1,459 Points

cascading: why can't i style/change the paragraph using #gallery li{} ?

i tried #gallery li {text-align:center} but nothing happens. I'm just wondering, since the paragraph is inside the #gallery 's list, why can't it change? why should i be more specific for it to change ?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

It's good practice to target the elements you wish to change.

Relying on inheritance to style one element by applying the style to a parent element is not a good idea, unless you are specifically trying to style the entire tree of elements from that parent on down.

But that said, since the text-align property is inherited, in this case adding your rule should center the titles under the images. I tried it myself and it did exactly that.

My first thought would be where did you add this rule (I placed it in main.css)? Might it have been placed in a media query that was not for your current screen size?

If that's not the problem, perhaps you would make a snapshot of your workspace and provide the link here to allow further analysis.