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CSS

leo kamin
leo kamin
5,550 Points
Posted by leo kamin
leo kamin
5,550 Points

cannot set the background color

this is a link to the code I'm having trouble with I cannot set the background color and cannot get my links to the far left side of the screen http://codepen.io/mr_lion/pen/jvrKJ

4 Answers

Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points
Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points

On body and html tags you have a space between background and color instead of a hyphen.

Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points
Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points

For your second question, the browser is adding default styling to the ul element. Add this to your css:

ul {
   padding: 0;
 }
leo kamin
leo kamin
5,550 Points
leo kamin
leo kamin
5,550 Points

I tried but it didn't work.

Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points
Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points

Also, remove the width on the li element. Let me know if that fixes it. You also may need to add display: inline-block; to the li selector.

leo kamin
leo kamin
5,550 Points
leo kamin
leo kamin
5,550 Points

The li Is still in the middle of the ul.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

You've got a few syntax errors, such as missing hyphens in property names and missing colons.

Analyze your CSS to find them all.

http://blog.codepen.io/2013/11/11/analyze-html-css-js/