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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Create a Horizontal List of Links

daniel rosenberg
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daniel rosenberg
Courses Plus Student 832 Points
Posted by daniel rosenberg
daniel rosenberg
Courses Plus Student 832 Points

selecting links inside nav element not successful?

I am supposed to select links inside a nav element in a .css and give the font weight of 800 and padding below and above. why is my code not working?

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{margin:0 10px;
      list-style:none;
       padding: 0 0;}
nav li {display: inline-block;}
nav link { 
  font-weight: 800 ;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi there,

For your last style rule try 

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

Rather than nav link.   link isn't a valid CSS selector.

Thanks.  :)
Olga Kireeva
Olga Kireeva
9,609 Points
Olga Kireeva
Olga Kireeva
9,609 Points

I just want to add some explanation to Jonathan's answer. A tag link in html is used to link to external style sheet (css) and located in head section. In the question they meant anchor tag, which defines a hyperlink and is used to link to another page.