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Dustin Morris
8,715 PointsDuring the positioning schemes challenge in task four, I get an error suggesting that task 1 is no longer true. Why?
Upon returning to task 1 the code passes without changes. Each task back up to four passes, but four still returns that it is causing task 1 to fail. Is this an error?
Task 4: "Establish another relative positioning context in content-row, then set the position of col so that both columns are absolutely positioned inside the row."
My code: .main-header, .content-row { position: relative; }
.main-logo, .main-nav, .primary-col, .secondary-col { position: absolute; }
.main-logo { top: 25px; left: 25px; }
.main-nav { bottom: 30px; right: 25px; }
3 Answers
Wayne Priestley
19,579 PointsHi Dustin,
Your code looks like this:
.main-header, .content-row { position: relative; }
.main-logo, .main-nav, .primary-col, .secondary-col { position: absolute; }
.main-logo { top: 25px; left: 25px; }
.main-nav { bottom: 30px; right: 25px; }
<div class="content-row">
<div class="primary col">
I think you got a bit ahead of yourself, the question asks you to give the col a position of absolute, you've given the primary-col a position of absolute.
There is NO primary-col or secondary-col there is a class="primary col" and a class="secondary col" these do not mean one is a primary-col as primary and col are two separate classes.
Hope Ive explained that so you can understand me.
A clue on how to fix this is in the first paragraph I wrote.
Please just ask if you need more help or a better explanation.
Dustin Morris
8,715 PointsMust have been a bug. After submitting this post, I went and tried again. By copy/pasting into the task, it passed. Thanks anyway.
Wayne Priestley
19,579 PointsNo probs Dustin,
These sort of bugs do pop up from time to time, frustrating I know but you did the right thing by posting your code when asking for help, Thanks!
Dustin Morris
8,715 PointsYeah, Trying to get help with Linux builds and the forums that go with that teaches you always include your code. Though I am not certain of how to separate it in a comment like you did in your comment.
Wayne Priestley
19,579 PointsThere is a markdown cheatsheet, at the near the bottom of the page its in bold text.
Dustin Morris
8,715 PointsDustin Morris
8,715 PointsRight, I saw that and had changed them to "primary-col" and "secondary col" in the HTML, but after posting realized that I took two classes and married them into one. Either way, that mistake was irrelevant to the problem I was having. The first task only asked that I make .main-header relative. I am really not sure what happened, but as I said in my comment, once I tried it again, using the same code it worked. The next step required me to fix the .col class and .primary and .secondary classes.
Thanks for your help.