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HTML How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Center the Wrapper

Nelson Cole
Nelson Cole
1,423 Points
Posted by Nelson Cole
Nelson Cole
1,423 Points

background color problem

When i add the padding I lose the background color???

a { text-decoration:none; }

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%: background: orange; }

2 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

It looks like after you set the padding value, you are using a colon " :" not " ;"

Try:

'''CSS

wrapper { Padding: 0 5%; Background-color: orange; } '''

Nelson Cole
Nelson Cole
1,423 Points
Nelson Cole
Nelson Cole
1,423 Points

Jacob

That was it .

Thanks Nelson

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Not a problem!!

Any time!