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CSS CSS Grid Layout Flexible Sized Grids Flexible Tracks Challenge

Posted by Geoff Twigg
Geoff Twigg
188 Points

Having troubles figuring out how to set column tracks with fractional values

Having a hard time with setting fr values adding up to 4 equal columns

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.wrapper {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 2fr 2fr;
  grid-template-rows: 100% 
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>CSS Grid Layout</title>
      <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link href="page.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="wrapper">
      <div>A</div>
      <div>B</div>
      <div>C</div>
      <div>D</div>
      <div>E</div>
      <div>F</div> 
      <div>G</div>
      <div>H</div>   
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! You've not defined 4 columns but rather 2 columns each taking up 2fr which is half of all the space given that they're the same size. The challenge asks you to define four columns with the first column being twice as large as each of the other three. To do this, we would make the columns like this:

grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr 1fr 1fr;

The first column here will be twice as large as the three columns that follow it.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: