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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Review: Styling Web Pages and Navigation

Posted by Jay Pirom
Jay Pirom
3,707 Points

What is parent element?

What is parent element?

3 Answers

Jonny Noble
Jonny Noble
11,165 Points
Jonny Noble
Jonny Noble
11,165 Points

For example - body is a parent to header, main, footer etc.

Jay Pirom
Jay Pirom
3,707 Points
Jay Pirom
Jay Pirom
3,707 Points

Thank you! I'm a bit confused with the question, "Why should images be set to a max-width of 100%?" The answer is that it will fill their parent element. What does this mean?

altair
altair
6,548 Points
altair
altair
6,548 Points

It means that the image will fill the entire space of the element one level above it.

For example:

<body> 
  <div>
    <img>
  </div>
</body>

Here the div element is the parent of the img tag, and the body element is the parent of the div tag.

Jay Pirom
Jay Pirom
3,707 Points
Jay Pirom
Jay Pirom
3,707 Points

Thank you! I got it now.