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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Float Layout Float Layout Challenge

Gareth Powell
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Gareth Powell
Courses Plus Student 7,016 Points
Posted by Gareth Powell
Gareth Powell
Courses Plus Student 7,016 Points

Stuck on: "Challenge Task 1 of 4 - Let's start by floating main-logo and the main-nav list items left."

Hi Everyone,

I am stuck on "Challenge Task 1 of 4 - Let's start by floating main-logo and the main-nav list items left." and could do with some help please. For example, I have written in the commented section:

/*Float Styles

.main-logo .main-nav  {
     float: left;
}

But nothing happens? Am I supposed to group it or put it in a column similar to the video?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks Gareth

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Floats</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="main-wrapper">  
        <header class="main-header">
            <h1 class="main-logo"><a href="#">My Work</a></h1>
            <ul class="main-nav">
                <li><a href="#">Design</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Coding</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Writing</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Hire Me!</a></li>
            </ul>
        </header>
        <div class="primary col">
            <h1>I'm a Designer</h1>
            <p>I design beautiful user interfaces, then bring them to life with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I love including personal photographs of nature, people and everyday things in my designs.</p>
            <p>If you need a front-end designer for your next project, <a href="#">take a look at my work</a>, then <a href="#">get in touch</a>!</p>
        </div>
        <div class="secondary col">
            <h2>I Also Write</h2>
            <p>I like teaching others about the latest web in technology. So when I'm not designing or coding websites &amp; apps, you'll find me writing <a href="#">articles for my blog</a>.</p>
        </div>
        <div class="extra">

        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

/* Float Styles
================================ */

.main-logo .main-nav  {
  float: left;
}

/* Float Clearfix
================================ */

.group:after {
  content: " ";
  display: table;
  clear: both;
}

5 Answers

Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points
Hugo Paz
Hugo Paz
15,622 Points

Hi Gareth,

You need to float the list items in .main-nav left:

.main-logo, .main-nav li{
float:left;
}
mtch
mtch
8,521 Points
mtch
mtch
8,521 Points

When you want to asign the same value to more than one element, you have to divide it with a comma. So in your case, it would look like this.

.main-logo, .main-nav { float: left; }

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Hey mtch,

Just wanted to let you know that I edited your comment because you referred to a comma as a colon.

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Gareth;

Let's have a look.

Task 1

Let's start by floating main-logo and the main-nav list items left.

If we look in the HTML file we see that both main-logo and main-nav are classes so we need to select them with a preceding period, which it looks like you have. We want to select two different classes, and not necessarily tie them together in a parent/child relationship so we need to separate them with a comma, like: .main-logo, .main-nav. We also need to specifically target the list items in the .main-nav class, so we would do:

.main-logo, .main-nav li {
  float: left;
}

Hope it helps and happy coding.

Ken

Gareth Powell
PLUS
Gareth Powell
Courses Plus Student 7,016 Points
Gareth Powell
Gareth Powell
Courses Plus Student 7,016 Points

Thanks Everyone!

Much appreciated and kick myself for forgetting the ','!

Cheers!

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

If you will go ahead and mark an answer as best, we can bring this question to a close. Thanks!