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CSS

Posted by Owa Aquino
Owa Aquino
19,277 Points

Help : Needed to display a set of element in-line together instead of stacking above each other.

Hello mates!

Just need some help on my project. I needed a group of element to be next each other like a column or some thing like this:

set of element set of element set of element

but so far what i did is like this: (i have entered a rule for the set display : inline but it seems to be not working.)

set of element

set of element

set of element

here is the code

HTML

<div class="service-category">
                        <img src="img" alt="Web Design">
                        <div">
                            <h2>Web Design</h2>
                            <p>Apple pie icing sweet. Brownie jelly-o applicake applicake sweet roll liquorice bear claw. Jujubes carrot cake cotton candy sweet tart brownie. Tiramisu applicake jujubes. Apple pie icing sweet. Brownie jelly-o applicake applicake sweet roll liquorice bear claw....</p>
                        </div>

<div class="service-category">
                        <img src="img" alt="Web Design">
                        <div >
                            <h2>Web Design</h2>
                            <p>Apple pie icing sweet. Brownie jelly-o applicake applicake sweet roll liquorice bear claw. Jujubes carrot cake cotton candy sweet tart brownie. Tiramisu applicake jujubes. Apple pie icing sweet. Brownie jelly-o applicake applicake sweet roll liquorice bear claw....</p>
                        </div>

<div class="service-category">
                        <img src="img" alt="Web Design">
                        <div >
                            <h2>Web Design</h2>
                            <p>Apple pie icing sweet. Brownie jelly-o applicake applicake sweet roll liquorice bear claw. Jujubes carrot cake cotton candy sweet tart brownie. Tiramisu applicake jujubes. Apple pie icing sweet. Brownie jelly-o applicake applicake sweet roll liquorice bear claw....</p>
                        </div>

CSS 

.service-category {
    display: inline;
       max-width: 180px;
}

.service-category img {
    max-width: 35%;
}

.service-category p {
    max-width: 180px;
    text-align: justify;
    color: #000;
    margin: 0 auto 30px;
    pa

Cheers!

2 Answers

Mohamed Ookiyo
Mohamed Ookiyo
22,714 Points
Mohamed Ookiyo
Mohamed Ookiyo
22,714 Points

Hi! Check your code. Your three main div tags with the class (service-category) are missing a closing tag. After you fix that, please try to use inline-block instead of inline and give them a margin-left property to separate each other.

Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
19,845 Points
Aaron HARPT
Aaron HARPT
19,845 Points

to have a column, you would want to have display: block