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CSS CSS Layout CSS Layout Techniques Display

Posted by Cosimo Peronace
Cosimo Peronace
5,295 Points

By default list items are placed on individual lines. Write a selector to target the list items with a class of .nav-btn

Hey guys,

I am completely stuck on this question. When I preview the code, to me it looks like the buttons are inline

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.more {

  display: none;

}

.nav-btn li {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 120px;

}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>CSS Layout</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
    <header>
      <nav>
        <ul class="nav-btn">
          <li class="nav-btn"><a href="#">Donuts</a></li>
                  <li class="nav-btn"><a href="#">Tea</a></li>
                  <li class="nav-btn"><a href="#">Coffee</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <main>
      <article>
        <h1>Donuts</h1>
        <p>Donuts are sweet snacks usually deep fried from a flour dough. The best place to buy donuts is at a bakery or specialty donut shop. Donuts go great with coffee.</p>
        <a href="#">Read more</a>
        <p class="more">In this paragraph, you’ll learn lots more interesting facts about donuts. For example, did you know that the largest donut ever made was a jelly donut weighing more than one and a half tons? It measured 16 feet in diameter and 16 inches high in the center.</p>
      </article>
    </main>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

mouseandweb
mouseandweb
13,758 Points
mouseandweb
mouseandweb
13,758 Points

Hello Cosimo Peronace ,

In your CSS you selected the li that's a child of an element with class "nav-btn". Seeing as the <li> elements already have the class "nav-btn" you do not need to specify the element itself.

So your code for the list elements should look like this:

/* targeting the elements with class "nav-btn" */
.nav-btn {
  display: inline;
  width: 120px;
}

What you wrote was this:

/* targeting any <li> elements that are children of an element with the class "nav-btn" */
.nav-btn li{
  display: inline;
  width: 120px;
}

In your HTML there is no <li> that's a child of an element with the class "nav-btn" so nothing is affected.

Cosimo Peronace
Cosimo Peronace
5,295 Points

Thank you so much!! This makes much more sense now!