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Steven Brown
Steven Brown
3,542 Points
Posted by Steven Brown
Steven Brown
3,542 Points

Converting .cake from px to percentage

For some reason this doesn't seem to be working. Unless I'm overlooking something. 10px/700px = 1.428571428571. If I put that in as a percentage, the checker keeps saying "Bummer! Your calculations are off."

3 Answers

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Steven,

Go and look at the code again. 700 is not the correct number. I'll put the code below.

Jeff

.cake {
  background-color: #f8748f;
  width: 85.714285714%; /*600px*/
  margin: 1.428571429%;
  padding: 10px;
}
Steven Brown
Steven Brown
3,542 Points
Steven Brown
Steven Brown
3,542 Points

Thanks Jeff. Just as you replied I finally figured out what was going on. It's a bit inconsistent for some reason. After reading the instructions closer, I see that the flexible padding is based on the width of it's element. .icing 10/700 .cake 10/600 and .filling 10/500 I think people are getting thrown off because it doesn't necessarily explain that in the video.

Steve Leichman
Steve Leichman
7,008 Points
Steve Leichman
Steve Leichman
7,008 Points

It's explained, this is just one of the first times they actually throw a curve ball at you in a code challenge and it doesn't look exactly like what you did in the video.