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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Create a Horizontal List of Links

Anabel Guevara
Anabel Guevara
902 Points
Posted by Anabel Guevara
Anabel Guevara
902 Points

What is the right syntax for links inside the nav element?

I'm still getting an error saying to check the top padding, however I'm not sure if I'm just not selecting the element correctly. Here is my code; I want the top and bottom to be 15px and left and right to 10px. nav li { padding: 15px 10px; }

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

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

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

nav ul {
  margin: 0 10px;
  list-style: none; 
  padding: 0; 
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;  
  font-weight: 800; 
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

h1 {
  font-family: ‘Changa One’, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

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

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

1 Answer

Colin Bell
Colin Bell
29,679 Points
Colin Bell
Colin Bell
29,679 Points

It's looking for the links inside the nav to be targeted. You're targeting the li instead of a.

nav li {
  display: inline-block; 
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800; 
  padding: 15px 10px; 
}