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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Resize Text

Posted by Ben Moore
Ben Moore
2,628 Points

My nav element is being overwritten by the footer element

In the code below, the nav properties, namely text-align are being overwritten by the footer element and the code inside the nav's curly braces are not taking effect. When I place the nav element under footer in my .css document, the nav is centered on the screen and the footer is set back to the default left position. Because they are different elements with different tags, I don't know why they are effecting one another.

Code:

/******************************************** \ \ CSS Styling File \ Last Edited: 7/22/2014 \ Written By: Ben Moore \ *********************************************/

/******************************************** General ********************************************/

body { font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; }

wrapper

{ max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }

a { text-decoration: none; }

/******************************************** Heading ********************************************/

logo

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

h1 { font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif; margin: 15px 0; font-size 1.75em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.8em; }

h2 { font-size: 0.75em; margin: -5px 0 0; font-weight: normal; };

/******************************************** Navigation ********************************************/

nav { text-align: center; padding: 10px 0; margin: 20px 0 0; }

/******************************************** Footer ********************************************/

footer { font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center; padding-top: 50px; color: #cccccc; }

/******************************************** Colors ********************************************/

/* Site Body */ body { background-color: #ffffff; color: #999999; }

/Green Header/ header { background: #6ab47b; border-color: #599a68; }

/naigation Background/ nav { background: #599a68; }

/Name/Occupation Text/ h1, h2 { color: #ffffff; }

/Anchors/ a { color: #6ab47b; }

/Color For A Nav Link/ nav a, nav a:visited
{ color: #ffffff; }

/Selected/Hovered Nav Link/ nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color: #32673f; }

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Ben,

What does your html look like?

Here's a thread on how to post code in the forums: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/posting-code-to-the-forum

2 Answers

Ben Moore
Ben Moore
2,628 Points

I found the answer: There was an unnecessary ";" after the h2 closing curly bracket. When I removed this, the code executed as expected. I apologize for such a silly error. Thank you for your assistance.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Glad you figured it out. I missed it but it looks like Derrick had found it. The end of the code block mentions a stray semicolon was removed.

It looks like this caused the browser to ignore the following rule and continue on with what's next.

Derrick Mull
Derrick Mull
18,518 Points
Derrick Mull
Derrick Mull
18,518 Points

Those pesky semi-colons.

Derrick Mull
Derrick Mull
18,518 Points
Derrick Mull
Derrick Mull
18,518 Points 
           /******************************************** \ 
\ CSS Styling File \ Last Edited: 7/22/2014 \ Written By: Ben Moore \ *********************************************/

/******************************************** General ********************************************/

body { 
  font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; 
}

wrapper { 
  max-width: 940px; 
  margin: 0 auto; 
  padding: 0 5%; }

a { 
  text-decoration: none; 
}

/******************************************** Heading ********************************************/

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

h1 { 
  font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif; 
  margin: 15px 0; font-size 1.75em; 
  font-weight: normal; 
  line-height: 0.8em; 
}

h2 { 
  font-size: 0.75em; 
  margin: -5px 0 0; 
  font-weight: normal; 
  }

/******************************************** Navigation ********************************************/

nav { 
  text-align: center; 
  padding: 10px 0; 
  margin: 20px 0 0; 
}

/******************************************** Footer ********************************************/

footer { 
  font-size: 0.75em; 
  text-align: center; 
  padding-top: 50px; 
  color: #cccccc; 
}

/******************************************** Colors ********************************************/

/* Site Body */ 
body { 
  background-color: #ffffff; 
  color: #999999; 
}

/Green Header/ 
header { 
  background: #6ab47b; 
  border-color: #599a68; 
}

/**** navigation Background ****/ 
  nav { 
  background: #599a68; 
}

/*** Name/Occupation Text ***/ 
h1, h2 { 
  color: #ffffff; 
}

/***Anchors***/ 
a { 
  color: #6ab47b; 
}

/***Color For A Nav Link***/ 
nav a, nav a:visited { 
  color: #ffffff; 
}

/***Selected/Hovered Nav Link***/ 
nav a.selected, nav a:hover { 
  color: #32673f; 
}
            ```



maybe this will help with some code cleanup... found a stray semicolon that was removed.
Derrick Mull
Derrick Mull
18,518 Points
Derrick Mull
Derrick Mull
18,518 Points

Seeing the HTML would be helpful to diagnose.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

If the stray semicolon you removed was after the h2 then I think that was the problem.