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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Float Layout Float Layout Challenge

Robbie Singh
Robbie Singh
3,675 Points
Posted by Robbie Singh
Robbie Singh
3,675 Points

How do you add a clearfix class to the main header? (challenge q)

It looks like we need a clearfix in the header. Give the main-header element the class we created for clearing floats.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Floats</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="main-wrapper">  
        <header class="main-header">
            <h1 class="main-logo"><a href="#">My Work</a></h1>
            <ul class="main-nav">
                <li><a href="#">Design</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Coding</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Writing</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Hire Me!</a></li>
            </ul>
        </header>
        <div class="primary col">
            <h1>I'm a Designer</h1>
            <p>I design beautiful user interfaces, then bring them to life with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I love including personal photographs of nature, people and everyday things in my designs.</p>
            <p>If you need a front-end designer for your next project, <a href="#">take a look at my work</a>, then <a href="#">get in touch</a>!</p>
        </div>
        <div class="secondary col">
            <h2>I Also Write</h2>
            <p>I like teaching others about the latest web in technology. So when I'm not designing or coding websites &amp; apps, you'll find me writing <a href="#">articles for my blog</a>.</p>
        </div>
        <div class="extra">

        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

/* Float Styles
================================ */

.main-logo,.main-nav li {
float: left;
}

/* Float Clearfix
================================ */



.group:after {
  content: " ";
  display: table;
  clear: both;
}

2 Answers

Donnie Reese
Donnie Reese
17,211 Points

Robbie Singh

The class that you created is the '.group:after' class, correct?

If so, it is just another class definition. The HTML element that has the .main-header class just needs to have another class added to it.

Any element in html can have multiple classes attached to them in the same way that .main-header was assigned to it. You would place it in the class="" attribute, separating classes with a space, like so:

<header class="main-header group">
...

I hope this helps explain it. Good luck!

Donnie Reese
Donnie Reese
17,211 Points

I don't remember taking this specific quiz, but the way I described is one way to accomplish this and how I would do it.

That being said, they might be testing specifically in the CSS and ask you to do something to what you did with .group. I would suggest trying what I suggested, if you haven't already. If you have, try creating a .main-header:after css selector and copy the code from .group.

I hope that is not what they are suggesting, because that is the whole purpose of the .group selector.

Robbie Singh
Robbie Singh
3,675 Points
Robbie Singh
Robbie Singh
3,675 Points

It was my fault. You were right to begin with. I'm still a new

Donnie Reese
Donnie Reese
17,211 Points

No problem!

I didn't exactly know what the specific course you were taking was intending you to do, but there are always multiple ways to accomplish most things. Keep up the good work. :)