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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add and Style Icons

Elizabeth Mawer
Elizabeth Mawer
9,554 Points
Posted by Elizabeth Mawer
Elizabeth Mawer
9,554 Points

what is wrong with this code please the system won't accept it? font-size: 0.9em;

The task is to set the font-size to 0.9em.
I wrote:

font-size: 0.9em;

and the computer says it is incorrect. I can't go onto the next task until I complete this one so I am unable to complete the course.

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;
}

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;
}

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

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

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

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}

 .contact-info ul {
   font-size: 0.9em;
   margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
   list-style: none;
}

2 Answers

sonat ugur
sonat ugur
5,725 Points
sonat ugur
sonat ugur
5,725 Points

in some cases, if you initialize the font size at the beginnig with some "em" unit, at the end it could be multiplied with the current value. It should be targeted to the same selector btw.

Elizabeth Mawer
Elizabeth Mawer
9,554 Points
Elizabeth Mawer
Elizabeth Mawer
9,554 Points

Thank you for your help. I deleted the first line of font-size code and tried entering my font-size again but it still doesn't recognise it? Any ideas?

Joshua Harman
Joshua Harman
8,821 Points
Joshua Harman
Joshua Harman
8,821 Points

It won't accept it because there are other lines in your code keeping the task from passing.

Your issue is actually that you selected too much. When it asked that you select the unordered list with the class contact-info, it didn't need you to select *.contact-info ul{}* . There actually is no such thing, since the very the thing the class is connected to is the unordered list in question.

<ul class="contact-info">

It needed you to just select the .contact-info class since you didn't need to be redundant. Does that make sense?

Here's what it should look like:

either

.contact-info {
  font-size: 0.9em;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

or this works too, I would just be more inclined to use the former in case I have multiple ul(s) in a document.

ul {
  font-size: 0.9em;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

I hope this helps!!