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

Monica Collins
Monica Collins
2,777 Points
Posted by Monica Collins
Monica Collins
2,777 Points

closing brackets twice after two @media points. you do not explain why we have to have two

in the video i do not understand why we have to brackets between two different Dan Catton . why!

3 Answers

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Hi Monica, the opening and closing curly braces show where the CSS declaration begins and ends. Below is a graphic to help depict the anatomy of CSS. A media query has its own set of braces because it's essentially a set of rules that run when a particular view port size is reached. For more information check out @media at MDN.

Anatomy of CSS

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Monica,

Basically, for every opening bracket { in your code, you need a closing bracket }. If this doesn't answer your question please offer an example.

Jeff

Monica Collins
Monica Collins
2,777 Points
Monica Collins
Monica Collins
2,777 Points

So sorry Dustin, I took for granted that you could see where I was in the video, my fault. I meant in the responsive video and responsive.css in the beginning where we have: @media screen and (min-width: 480px) { body { background: navy; } } we have two opening bracket and two closing brackets (of course) . I think now I get it, but it was a little confusing in the test to remember that.