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HTML How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Center the Wrapper

Tomasz Cysewski
Tomasz Cysewski
2,736 Points
Posted by Tomasz Cysewski
Tomasz Cysewski
2,736 Points

Footer does not work correctly

Hello, I'm trying to make footer work, it aligns along with wrapper, if I delete float:left from galerry items footer works correctly. Whats the matter? Thx for help

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
    <style>
      ul{
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        list-style: none;
      }
      #id li{
        float: left;
        width:45%;
        margin: 2.5%;
      }
      img{
        max-width:100%;
      }
      #wrapper {

        max-width: 940px;
        margin: 0 auto;
        padding: 0 5%; }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>

      <a href="index.html" style="text-align: center">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav style="text-align: center; padding: 10px; margin: 20px 0 0;">
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section >
        <ul id="id" class=" gallery">
          <li><img src="numbers-01.jpg" alt="numbers-01"></li>

          <li><img src="numbers-02.jpg" alt="numbers-01"></li>

          <li><img src="numbers-06.jpg" alt="numbers-01"></li>
          <li><img src="numbers-09.jpg" alt="numbers-01"></li>
          <li><img src="numbers-12.jpg" alt="numbers-01"></li>
        </ul>
      </section>
    </div>

    <footer style="font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center; padding: 50px; color: #ccc; ">
      <p>&copy; 2014 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Tomasz Cysewski
Tomasz Cysewski
2,736 Points
Tomasz Cysewski
Tomasz Cysewski
2,736 Points

I perceived that the width of the section is 0px, when I scale it footer moves

1 Answer

Chris Jardine
Chris Jardine
13,299 Points

Hi Tomasz

I believe the <section> tag has collapsed because of the floated item. So to fix this, create a clearfix and add it to the <section> tag.

.clearfix::after {
  content: '';
  display: table;
  clear: both;
}

Add to section tag

<section class="clearfix" >