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HTML How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Refactor the Layout

Posted by Frank Caro
Frank Caro
2,172 Points

cannot get pass this task challenge

I believe I did set clear left

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

.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {

  #gallery li {
    width: 28.3333%;
}
  #gallery li: nth-child (4) {
    clear :left;
}

3 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! Thought I'd add my two cents here. Both gentlemen are partially correct. The code posted in the original post would only select the fourth item and nothing else. It wants every fourth item to be selected. However, it wants this to start with the first item so no offset is needed.

Andrus Suve is spot on when he says that the space is too much. Generally speaking, CSS isn't that picky about white space. But this is one of those occasions when it is, and having a space between the colon and the nth-child and even the space between the nth-child and open parentheses will cause an error.

The line you're looking for should look like this:

#gallery li:nth-child(4n)

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Frank Caro
Frank Caro
2,172 Points

thanks Jennifer

Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
18,199 Points
Justin Iezzi
Justin Iezzi
18,199 Points

I believe the proper syntax for what they're asking "every 4th list item in the element" is -

#gallery li: nth-child (4n+4)

4n is the cycle amount and the +4 is the offset value.

This will continue to to select every fourth list item forever until it runs out of list items. Your current selector is only selecting the 4th list item alone.

Hope this helps.

Andrus Suve
Andrus Suve
4,194 Points
Andrus Suve
Andrus Suve
4,194 Points

gallery li:nth-child (4n) space after : is to much