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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Positioning Schemes Positioning Schemes Challenge

Posted by jonathantimby
jonathantimby
16,469 Points

First, establish a relative positioning context in main-header.

I'm very confused on this task. I would appreciate if someone could help!

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 */

2 Answers

Cory Madden
Cory Madden
7,120 Points
Cory Madden
Cory Madden
7,120 Points

In CSS to add a style attribute to an element you must put the name/id of the element in your CSS as follows:

.main-header{
  position: relative;
}

If you want to affect an element with a specific ID(ie. <span id="aSpan">) your CSS would include a hastag(#) followed by the ID:

#aSpan {
  some-property: some-value;
}

And for all elements using a certain "class" it would be prefixed by a "." instead.

.some-class {
  some-property: some-value;
}
jonathantimby
jonathantimby
16,469 Points
jonathantimby
jonathantimby
16,469 Points

Thank you for the help Cory!