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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Float Layout Float Layout Challenge

Posted by MUZ140075 Melody A. Nyatsine
MUZ140075 Melody A. Nyatsine
6,052 Points

float layout

It looks like we need a clearfix in the header. Give the main-header element the class we created for clearing floats.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Floats</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="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 class="extra">

        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.main-logo,
.main-nav li {
  float: left;
}

/* Float Styles
================================ */



/* Float Clearfix
================================ */

.group:after {
  content: " ";
  display: table;
  clear: both;
}
.main-header {
  float: clear;
}

1 Answer

Thas Eagans
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Thas Eagans
Courses Plus Student 2,533 Points
Thas Eagans
Thas Eagans
Courses Plus Student 2,533 Points

If I'm understanding correctly, you just need to add the css clearfix to the html header. Since the clearfix is in the .group class, it would look like this...

<header class="main-header group">

If you are suppose to create a new style like you're trying to do, it would look like this...

.main-header {
  clear: both;
}

You are just a little off. 'clear' is not an acceptable value for float.

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