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Stephon Nixon
Courses Plus Student 506 PointsWhat is the purpose of the 15px in the CSS code "padding: 15px 10px;?"
I played around with the 15 and increased it to as high as 1500 px and nothing changed. Just to be clear this is the CSS for "nav a".
3 Answers
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 PointsHey Stephon,
if you write the value of the padding property with two values it's a shorthand value to define the padding-top and padding-bottom value with the first value, so in this case padding-top and padding-bottom will be 15px and padding-left and padding-right with the second value which means that padding-left and padding-right will have a value of 10px. I hope that helps! :)
Stephon Nixon
Courses Plus Student 506 PointsThank you guys. I actually see what the issue was. It was inline-block (as instructed) it seems that first number wasn't really making a change. I added another display property and set the value to block like Liam said, that's when the first number started to make a difference. I find it strange because it was originally "inline-block" which should be like a mix of both.
Tobias Helmrich
31,603 PointsAlright, glad you got it working! :) However I want to note that if the anchor is an inline-block element it should actually work because you can give a padding/margin-top to an inline-block element. Are you sure that your anchor was an inline-block element and not just the list item?
Stephon Nixon
Courses Plus Student 506 PointsAhhhhhhhh. You're right Tobias, only the list item was inline-block
liam johnshon
Courses Plus Student 904 Pointsliam johnshon
Courses Plus Student 904 Pointspadding 15px here is for top and bottom & 10px for left and right and if u are not getting any change make sure you give nave a property display:block;