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CSS CSS Layout Basics Page Layout with the Float Property Footer Layout with Floats

Posted by Daniel Palermo
Daniel Palermo
6,589 Points

CSS layout basic floats code challenge 3 of 4

I have tried adding clearfix the html tag for footer-nav which didn't work. Then I tried adding clearfix to the container tag above footer-nav which also did not work. I tried playing with the clearfix class in the CSS and can't get anything to work. Can someone tell me where to look?

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

.footer-nav {
  float: left;
  }


.logo {
  float: right;
 }

.footer-nav li {
  float: left;
  }


.clearfix::after {
  content: "";
  display: table;
  clear: both;
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Getting Started with CSS Layout</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
    <body>
    <div class="container clearfix">
        <footer>
            <img class="logo" src="city-logo.svg" alt="logo">
            <ul class="footer-nav">
                <li><a href="#">Ice cream</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Donuts</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Tea</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Coffee</a></li>
            </ul>
            <p class="copyright">&copy;2015 The Best City.</p>
        </footer>
    </div>
    </body>
</html>

3 Answers

Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points
Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points

Just inside the div with the "container" class (you can remove the clearfix from that one) you should see the footer element.

<footer class="class-goes-here">
Daniel Palermo
Daniel Palermo
6,589 Points

Thanks, Ben.

Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points
Ben Reynolds
Ben Reynolds
35,170 Points

The class should go directly on the footer element, not its container.

Daniel Palermo
Daniel Palermo
6,589 Points
Daniel Palermo
Daniel Palermo
6,589 Points

Hi Ben, I have tried doing this in the index.html file but that doesn't seem to work to prevent the float from collapsing the footer. <ul class="footer-nav clearfix">

Is that what you meant?