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CSS How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Build a Three Column Layout

Aditi Jain
Aditi Jain
1,217 Points
Posted by Aditi Jain
Aditi Jain
1,217 Points

drifting images of the gallery

When I did exactly as Nick told,

#gallery li:nth-child(4n) { clear: left; }

it worked fine. But when I increased the description of the first image by a few lines in index.html's gallery, the third and the fourth images drifted to the right hand side again at different browser window sizes.

P.S. the code is same as Nick's.

3 Answers

Alessandra Vaughn
Alessandra Vaughn
13,915 Points
Alessandra Vaughn
Alessandra Vaughn
13,915 Points

Hi Aditi,

Are you having the issue when the images are 2 across and the width of the browser window is around 300-ish pixels wide? I have this issue as well. I don't think it was addressed in the video. I fixed it by adding an additional media query for a screen width of 479 pixels or less. See code below.

@media screen and (max-width: 479px) {
  /* two-photo layout */
  #gallery li {
    width: 42.5%
    }

  #gallery li:nth-child(3n) {
    clear: left;
    }
}
Aditi Jain
Aditi Jain
1,217 Points
Aditi Jain
Aditi Jain
1,217 Points

Hi! Thanks for the code. It did fix the issue.Thanks for the idea! :)

Anyways, quick question: why did we make 2 column layout when we were fitting 3-images per row? Code is pasted below:

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

/******************************************************* TWO COLUMN LAYOUT *******************************************************/

#primary{ width: 50%; float:left }

#secondary { width: 40%; float: right; }

/******************************************************* PAGE: PORTFOLIO *******************************************************/

#gallery li{ width: 28.3333%; } }

Alessandra Vaughn
Alessandra Vaughn
13,915 Points
Alessandra Vaughn
Alessandra Vaughn
13,915 Points

Hi - I'm glad the code worked. I think that "two-column layout" code is for the contact page, not for the gallery.