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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Flexbox Layout Flexbox Layout Challenge

Suxin Deng
Suxin Deng
804 Points
Posted by Suxin Deng
Suxin Deng
804 Points

help with flex

can anyone help with my code? I do not know where I go wrong? The problem is "Finally, let's reverse the column order by giving secondary the flexbox property and value that moves it to the beginning of the row."

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Flexbox</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="main-wrapper">
        <header class="main-header">
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            </ul>
        </header>
        <div class="content-row">
            <div class="primary col">
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            </div>
            <div class="secondary col">
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            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
@media (min-width: 611px) {

    /* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
  .main-nav {
  display: flex;}

  .main-nav li{flex-grow: 1;}
  .content-row {display: flex;}

  .secondary {
    flex:1;
    order: -1;}
}

1 Answer

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points
Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi,

the full answer to the code challenge is below,

@media (min-width: 611px) {

    /* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
  .main-nav,
  .content-row {
    display: flex;

  }

  .main-nav li {
    flex-grow: 1;
  }

  .secondary {
    order: -1;
  } 
}

With flexbox to pull on item to the beginning of its container simply give it the negative value.

Hope this helps :)

Craig