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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Make a CSS Image Gallery

Posted by Dmitriy An
Dmitriy An
11,795 Points

Hi guys, What does it mean to fill the parent element?

Little bit stuck, can someone clarify what does it mean to fill the element?

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: Changa One, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img {
max-width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
}
Jenna Dercole
Jenna Dercole
30,224 Points
Jenna Dercole
Jenna Dercole
30,224 Points

Hey Dmitriy,

Really what you need to know is that the percentage you assign to any element's max-width property will refer to how wide you want that element to be in reference to whichever element it's nested in.

For example, the <body> element would be the parent of the img here, as the img is nested within it:

          <body>
                   <img src="something.jpg" />
         </body>

So if you assign img's max-width property to be 45%, that image will only take up 45% of the body's defined width.

Hopefully this helps!

2 Answers

Landon Morgan
Landon Morgan
11,877 Points

For example. If an unordered list was inside a section element. The unordered list filling parent means it would take up the same amount of width as the section element itself takes up.

Dmitriy An
Dmitriy An
11,795 Points
Dmitriy An
Dmitriy An
11,795 Points

Thanks, got it