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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Make a CSS Image Gallery

Posted by James Barshaw
James Barshaw
9,284 Points

set the background color for gallery list items to a color of your choosing. It can be anything except browser default

text-decoration: none; }

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; }

img { max-width: 100%; }

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; }

gallery {

margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }

gallery li{

float: left; width: 45%; margin: 2.5%; background-color: f5f5f5; ***medium gray****\ color: bdc3c7;*gray********\ font-size: 0.75em; color: bdc3c7;

}

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

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

img {
max-width: 100%;
}

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

#gallery li{
float: left;
width: 45%;
margin: 2.5%;
background-color: f5f5f5; \******medium gray**********\
color: bdc3c7;\******gray**********\
 font-size: 0.75em;
color: bdc3c7;


}
Christian Blume
Christian Blume
10,424 Points
Christian Blume
Christian Blume
10,424 Points

Hey James,

you forgot the # in front of your hex values. Apart from that, your comments are wrong. You have to use the forward slash and not the backslash, so your declarations in the #gallery li rule should look like this:

background-color: #f5f5f5; /* medium gray */
color: #bdc3c7; /* gray */

Also, for short notes (e.g. which color a certain hex value stands for) it's cleaner to just use one * in the beginning and one in the end. Multiple * are a good way to visually separate parts of the file. But that's just personal preference.