<a> attribute left aligned despite text-align being set to centre

Question

Hi guys,

Really stumped by this, I have a a tag in header tag as per Nick's code, yet despite our main.css being identical line for line his is centre aligned and mine is left aligned.

My index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Adam Jones | Learning to build a site</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Adam Jones</h1>
        <h2>Learning to build a site</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Home</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="examples.html">Code Examples</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>

    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>text</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>text</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>text</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>text</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>text</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>

      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/abc"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter"></a>
        <a href="https://facebook.com/abc"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook"></a>

        <p>&copy; 2014 Adam Jones.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>

</html>

My css, which comments aside is identical to Nick's

/*****************************/
General
/*****************************/

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

/*****************************/
Heading
/*****************************/

/*
  This is where the issue is
*/
#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1 {
  font-family:'Changa One', sans-serif;
  margin: 15px, 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
}


/*****************************/
Colours
/*****************************/
body {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #999;
}

header {
  background: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599a68;
}
/*
  Nav background for mobile
*/
nav {
  background: #599a68;
}
h1,h2 {
  color: #fff;
}
a {
  /*text-decoration:none;*/
  color: #6ab47b;
}

nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}
nav a.selected {
  color: #32673f;
}

Nick's css

/**********************************
GENERAL
***********************************/

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}



/**********************************
HEADING
***********************************/

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

h1 {
  font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
}



/**********************************
COLORS
***********************************/

/* site body */
body {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #999;
}

/* green header */
header {
  background: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599a68;
}

/* nav background on mobile */
nav {
  background: #599a68;
}

/* logo text */
h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

/* links */
a {
  color: #6ab47b;
}

/* nav link */
nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}

/* selected nav link */
nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

I really can't work out why there should be any difference in result, but y h1 and h2 tags in the a with the id logo remain studdornly left aligned

      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Adam Jones</h1>
        <h2>Learning to build a site</h2>
      </a>

Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1 · 2014-06-13T18:59:13Z

June 13, 2014 6:59pm

Call me crazy, but it looks like your CSS selectors don't specify that it's looking for an id. Add the hashtag(#) sympol to the beginning of your selector so it read #logo. You should do this for the rest of your code as well if it's missing from other things.

Answer 2 · 2014-06-13T19:17:39Z

June 13, 2014 7:17pm

Sorry, that's just a result of me not using the markdown properly, I've fixed it now, hopefully.

I'm using the # id selector in the same way Nick is, so I'm puzzled as to why it's not applying the styling. The only thing I could think of is that the a is nested in a header and that might be overriding the css in #logo, however, Nick's html and css are the same and that isn't happening for him.

Nick's html for referrence.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Creating shapes using repetition.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2014 Nick Pettit.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

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