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CSS

Posted by Eric Mitchell Porat
Eric Mitchell Porat
668 Points

Convert the padding on .filling from pixels to percentages.

So as the title states: "Convert the padding on .filling from pixels to percentages."

Here is the code:

.container {
            max-width: 700px;
        }
        .icing {
            background-color: #B4C34F;
            width: 100%; /*700px*/
    padding: 10px;
        }
        .cake {
            background-color: #f8748f;
            width: 85.714285714%; /*600px*/
    margin: 1.428571429%; 
    padding: 1.66%;
    }
        }
        .filling {
            background-color: #4FB69F;
            width: 83.33333333%; /*500px*/ 
    margin: 1.6666666666%;
    padding: 10px;
        }

I divided the target (10px) by the context (500px) and the result is 0.02. When I turn this into a percentage and create the padding as 2%, it still shows up as an error. What am I doing wrong?

2 Answers

danielcroft
danielcroft
7,438 Points

I dont know if this is causing your error but you have two "}" after each other before .filling , do you see it highlighted in red?

Try that and see?

Eric Mitchell Porat
Eric Mitchell Porat
668 Points
Eric Mitchell Porat
Eric Mitchell Porat
668 Points

Thank you! That's why it was showing an error :-)

danielcroft
danielcroft
7,438 Points

Glad i could help :)