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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Polish the Navigation and Footer

Posted by Crina Burroughs
Crina Burroughs
843 Points

Font weight does not change to 800px

As Nick does, I want to change the weight of my nav items to 800px. My HTML and CSS seem to be correct but the change does not reflect when refreshing. When inspected in Chrome, it appears to warn that '800px' is an invalid property value.

HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Crina Burroughs | Designer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400,400i,700,800" rel="stylesheet"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head>

CSS code:

nav a { font-weight: 800px; padding: 15px 10px; }

Thank you in advance

5 Answers

Jeremy Cutajar
Jeremy Cutajar
2,933 Points

I believe font-weight does not use px values. If you want a font-weight of 800, you just use font-weight: 800;

Hope this helps

Crina Burroughs
Crina Burroughs
843 Points
Crina Burroughs
Crina Burroughs
843 Points

Thank you for your answer! Why does Nick write '800px' then...? Hmmm...

Jeremy Cutajar
Jeremy Cutajar
2,933 Points
Jeremy Cutajar
Jeremy Cutajar
2,933 Points

Have you watched the entire video? Sometimes after teacher compiles, he realizes and error and fixes it. I know it happens a lot in the C# track :P I don't know for your specific video. Has font-weight: 800 worked?

Crina Burroughs
Crina Burroughs
843 Points
Crina Burroughs
Crina Burroughs
843 Points

Yes, it worked! And he doesn't correct it. Anyway, good for other people to know this. Thanks for your help!

Jeremy Cutajar
Jeremy Cutajar
2,933 Points
Jeremy Cutajar
Jeremy Cutajar
2,933 Points

Oh I don't know then. Glad I was helpful for my first comment in the community tab :) You're welcome