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Katiuska Alicea de Leon
10,341 PointsRefractor the layout module, task 2 of 2
I really have no idea what's being asked of me here. I' not an English speaker and I have no recollection of an nth child think being mentioned. Can someone explain this quetion to me? Thanks!
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: 28.333%
}
#gallery li:nth-child(4) {
clear: left;
}
}
4 Answers
Jeff Lemay
14,268 PointsYou're close! But, the way you wrote you're nth-child property, you're targeting only the fourth element. You want to target every fourth element, which is done using "4n".
"n" is basically a multiplier, starting at 0. So your code would target 4x0 (nothing), 4x1 (fourth element), 4x2 (eighth element), 4x3 (twelfth element), and so on.
Katiuska Alicea de Leon
10,341 PointsOk, so 4x1 means every 4th element,? I don't know how to express that inside the parenthesis. I tried 41, 4x1, 4*1... I even wrote "every fourth" hehe.
Jeff Lemay
14,268 PointsNo no, sorry for the confusion. You want :nth-child(4n).
The stuff with 4x1, etc. was just to illustrate what is happening when you use 4n. n is the key to nth-child.
#gallery li:nth-child(4n) {
clear: left;
}
Katiuska Alicea de Leon
10,341 Pointsok, cool. So, if I wanted the 8th element it would have been 8n, the 12th 12n and so on? I don't have to do much math, right?
Jeff Lemay
14,268 PointsNo, that's not how it works. "n" represents an infinite amount of numbers, from 0 thru infinity. If you have 500 items on your page and you use :nth-child(4n), every element that is a multiple of 4 will be touched (4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 400, 444, 496, 500, and all multiples of 4 in between).
So if you used :nth-child(3n), you would affect the elements that are multiple of 3 (3, 6, 9, 12, 15, and so on).
If you only want to affect the eighth element, you would simple use :nth-child(8).
Here is some material if this is still not making since: https://css-tricks.com/how-nth-child-works/
Katiuska Alicea de Leon
10,341 PointsOoh, thanks!