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CSS How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Refactor the Layout

Fametta McClain
Fametta McClain
9,910 Points
Posted by Fametta McClain
Fametta McClain
9,910 Points

Media query code challenge

The challenge called for clearing the left side of every 4th list item in the gallery. I entered the code but got an error message asking if I set clear; left on every 4th gallery list item.

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: ‘Changa One’, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

nav ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

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

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}

.contact-info {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}

.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {

  #gallery li {
    width: 28.3333%;
  }

  #gallery li: nth-child(4n) {
  clear:left;
  }
}

2 Answers

Ryan Field
PLUS
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points
Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

You've got it almost right. You just need to remove the space after the colon so it looks like this:

  #gallery li:nth-child(4n) {
  clear:left;
  }
Fametta McClain
Fametta McClain
9,910 Points
Fametta McClain
Fametta McClain
9,910 Points

Thank you Ryan. That worked!

Josh Alling
Josh Alling
17,172 Points
Josh Alling
Josh Alling
17,172 Points

I think you need to remove the n so it says nth-child(4).

Fametta McClain
Fametta McClain
9,910 Points
Fametta McClain
Fametta McClain
9,910 Points

I tried that initially and that didn't work. I still got the error message.