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mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points
Posted by mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points

Having some trouble with adding some space between my a href tags. Any help would be appreciated. (codepen included).

I'm just practicing making a float based layout. I have a section of code floated to the left, with the heading "various links." These links point to various teachers twitter accounts on teamtreehouse. The problem I'm having is that I can't add any "Whitespace" to the bottom of the links with css. I would be nice to give these links some "breathing space. I've tried attribute selectors but, nothing seems to work. Can any one help me figure out how to add some space to the bottom of the a href tags using css? The class name is floatLeft, and it starts on line 84 of my css Codepen. Thank you in advance for any help.

Codepen Link: http://codepen.io/mike316/pen/XJeLxB

2 Answers

kevin jordan
kevin jordan
11,353 Points
kevin jordan
kevin jordan
11,353 Points

Mr X: Here's a forked pen of your code : http://codepen.io/anon/pen/WbZqmO

Basically I added all your a href s into an UL - like you did in your nav class. Then I used css to remove the styling from the LI.

Hope this helps ! kj

mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points
mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points

Thank you kj.

Richard Ling
Richard Ling
8,522 Points
Richard Ling
Richard Ling
8,522 Points

Hi,

Have attached another codepen link: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/JorQwz

It's not particularly elegant (it's late, and I'm tired haha), but it works. I've wrapped your links in a container with class leftLinks, then added css to turn the inner a tags into block level elements. From there you can just adjust the bottom margin as required. I've also removed the br tags as they're no longer necessary.

Hope that moves you in the direction you were after! :)

Thanks, Rich

mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points
mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points

Thank you Richard.