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Jason Drury
5,861 PointsDebugging CSS Problems
My two columns were not showing side by side in the contact page and I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why. I finally found it, I was using "float: right:" (notice it ends in a colon) vs "float: right;" (with the semi-colon). I was wondering to save me future grief if there is a way to catch an error like this? Workspaces did not complain nor did Sublime text editor. Thanks!
2 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHey Jason,
Sadly, I don't believe there is a way. To be honest, those dang semi-colons often snag me up many times as well. I don't work much in CSS, but in PHP if you forget one, you basically just get a white screen... which usually means go "hunt for the missing semi-colon." :/
Compiled languages (i.e. Java) will return a syntax error if you miss one, unfortunately CSS is interpreted and not compiled. Sorry. :)
But if you do ever come across a solution... please let me know too! Lol.
Andreas Frost Nordstrøm-Hansen
2,443 PointsI think i remember it changes color according to the values. So if it's not the correct value it wont have a correct color. Try and compare the two situations. Does it have another color?