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HTML Build a Responsive Website Creating a Fluid Foundation Creating Flexible Margins

Posted by Hannah Cook
Hannah Cook
Courses Plus Student 794 Points

Formula not coming out to work for me

When asked to use .cake as the context and change the margin on .filling from pixels to percentages, I am not able to get the correct answer. I divided the 10px margin by the .cake (640px) container width. Please tell me what I am doing wrong. I got the first question in this series correct. Thanks!

2 Answers

Nicholas Mejia
Nicholas Mejia
23,800 Points
Nicholas Mejia
Nicholas Mejia
23,800 Points

Can you post the entire question along with the code? It would make it a lot easier to help you.

Dave McFarland
STAFF
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Hannah,

The formula to figure this out is target/context * 100 = result %. To determine margin size, you start with the pixel width of your target margin: In this case it's 10px; then you divide that by the container's width (here the container is the .cake element and it's width is 640px; finally, you multiple that result by 100 to get a percentage value:

(10/640) * 100 = 1.5625%