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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Positioning Schemes Positioning Schemes Challenge

Posted by Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points

Code challenge

Cant seem to pass this challenge, any help would be appreciated peeps

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Positioning</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="content-row">
            <div class="primary col">
                <h1>I'm a 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 web in 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>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.main-header {
  position: relative;
}
.main-logo,
.main-nav {
  position: absolute;
}

.main-logo {
  top: 25px;
  left: 25px
}
.main-nav {
  bottom: 30px;
  right: 25px;
}

.content-row {
  position: relative;
}

.col {
  position: absolute;
}

.primary col {
  left: 0;
}

.secondary col {
  right: 0;
}

3 Answers

Sean Do
Sean Do
11,933 Points
Sean Do
Sean Do
11,933 Points 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.main-header {
  position: relative;
}
.main-logo,
.main-nav {
  position: absolute;
}

.main-logo {
  top: 25px;
  left: 25px
}
.main-nav {
  bottom: 30px;
  right: 25px;
}

.content-row {
  position: relative;
}

.col { /* You need to select .content-row as well to target columns inside content-row */
  position: absolute;
}

.primary col { /* Change "col"  to ".col" You forgot the dot/period before col */
  left: 0;
}

.secondary col { /* Change "col" to ".col" You forgot the dot/period before col */
  right: 0;
}
Sergey Rock
Sergey Rock
2,308 Points
Sergey Rock
Sergey Rock
2,308 Points 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.main-header,
.content-row {
  position: relative;
}
.main-logo,
.main-nav,
.col {
  position: absolute;
}
.main-logo {
  top: 25px;
  left: 25px;
}
.main-nav {
  bottom: 30px;
  right: 25px;
}
.primary.col {
  left: 0;
}
.secondary.col {
  right: 0;
}
.col {
  top: 0;
}
Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points
Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points

Neither of those worked properly but thanks anyway, managed to work it out and typed it this way to pass the challenge .col { position: absolute; }

.primary, .col { left: 0; }

.secondary, .col { right: 0; }

Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points

the only difference was that I needed a comma after the .primary and .secondary rules