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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Create a Horizontal List of Links

Posted by Susan Dubickas
Susan Dubickas
828 Points

How do I get the display property set to inline-block to be recognized?

Error: Did you set the display property to inline-block?

nav ul {
margin: 0 10px; list-style: none; padding: 0; display: inline-block; }

Display property is set to inline-block. Why is this not getting recognized?

Thanks! Susan

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: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}
nav ul {  
  margin: 0 10px;
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  display: inline-block;
}

4 Answers

Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points
Tobias Helmrich
Tobias Helmrich
31,602 Points

Hey Susan,

the challenge wants you to set the list items inside the nav to inline-block, not the unordered list.

So this should work:

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}
Geovanie Alvarez
Geovanie Alvarez
21,500 Points
Geovanie Alvarez
Geovanie Alvarez
21,500 Points

Remove the display: inline-block from nav ul and put into nav li because in the instruction say: Select the list items inside the nav element and set their display to inline-block.

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}
Susan Dubickas
Susan Dubickas
828 Points
Susan Dubickas
Susan Dubickas
828 Points

Ah. Okay. Guess I'm just really getting thrown with 'select' which to me means to select something that currently exists - I keep looking for a piece of code that already exists that I should be adding to.

Your line of code worked.

Thanks! Susan

Susan Dubickas
Susan Dubickas
828 Points
Susan Dubickas
Susan Dubickas
828 Points

Yea, I guess the 'select' verbiage in the instruction set is just really misleading me today.

Thanks! Susan