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CSS CSS Layout Basics Getting Started with CSS Layout Layout Wrapper Challenge

Naveen Kumar
Naveen Kumar
3,956 Points
Posted by Naveen Kumar
Naveen Kumar
3,956 Points

Answer to second question is wrong even though I typed it correctly.

.container { width: 80%; margin: 0 auto; }

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Getting Started with CSS Layout</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
    <body>
    <div class="container">
        <header>
            <h1>Best City Guide</h1>
        </header>

        <div class="main">
            <h2>Welcome!</h2>
            <p>Dessert toffee chocolate lollipop fruitcake cake sweet. Pudding cotton candy chocolate pudding liquorice jelly marzipan. Muffin gummies topping lollipop. Caramels chocolate cake donut liquorice.</p>
            <p>Cake sesame snaps sweet tart candy canes tiramisu I love oat cake chocolate bar. Jelly beans pastry brownie sugar plum pastry bear claw tiramisu tootsie roll.</p>
        </div>

        <footer>
            <p>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City.</p>
        </footer>
    </div>
    </body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.container {
  width : 80%;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The check for the second task is very picky. It does not expect you to have any spaces between property names and the colon that follows them. So if you remove the space you have between width and : like this:

.container {
  width: 80%;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

Then your code will be accepted.

Naveen Kumar
Naveen Kumar
3,956 Points
Naveen Kumar
Naveen Kumar
3,956 Points

Hey andren thanks for your response.