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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Display Modes Display Modes Challenge

Ben Berning
Ben Berning
31,784 Points
Posted by Ben Berning
Ben Berning
31,784 Points

Let’s create a new rule that removes the whitespace with a negative margin.

The error message reads "Make sure you’re giving ‘.col’ the correct negative margin value.". If there's a specific value that I need to enter, I'm not sure what that is.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Display Modes</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 Front-end 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>
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        </div>
        <div class="secondary col">
            <h2>I Also Write</h2>
            <p>I like teaching others about the latest in web 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>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.main-header {
  padding: 5px;
}

.main-logo,
.main-nav,
.main-nav li,
.col {
  display: inline-block;
}

.col {
  white-space: -.2px;
}

2 Answers

Sean Pierce Sumler
Sean Pierce Sumler
18,968 Points
Sean Pierce Sumler
Sean Pierce Sumler
18,968 Points

Hi Ben.

I'm not sure that the white-space property will take a numeric value. I referenced the property here -> http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_white-space.asp

I think what they're looking for is:

.col { margin: -2px; }

It's ambiguous because the question asks to remove "whitespace," but this should be your solution.

I hope this helps. -S

Ben Berning
Ben Berning
31,784 Points
Ben Berning
Ben Berning
31,784 Points

It worked, using the margin property instead of white-space.

Thank you