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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add a New Page

Posted by Matthew H
Matthew H
6,627 Points

Text margin on About and Contact Pages

I noticed that Nick's text below the photo is inset from the edge of the browser window, whereas my text is slammed right against the edge with 0 margin. why does mine look different?

3 Answers

bleedcmyk
bleedcmyk
5,945 Points

If you're referring to the About text on the About page, its because he has padding on his #wrapper container div.

#wrapper { padding: 0 5%; }

Its the 5% in particular that adds a scaling padding to the left and right siides of his content wrapper.

jaredcowan
jaredcowan
11,808 Points
jaredcowan
jaredcowan
11,808 Points

Without seeing the code. I would check to see that your HTML is structured correctly and see if your css matches that of the projects downloadable files.

Matthew H
Matthew H
6,627 Points
Matthew H
Matthew H
6,627 Points

ah, you led me back to a syntax error I made days ago. Thanks so much!

jaredcowan
jaredcowan
11,808 Points

You're welcome.