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Posted by philipfrey
philipfrey
1,659 Points

How to Make a Website - Style the portofolio - float messes up the whole page

When I add the float:left line to my gallery, together with the others, the whole page gets messed up. I've tried to check line-by-line, but I just can't see the error. Could you help?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxSxn1kD-UPFZzR1clBWTk5MYkE/edit?usp=sharing

4 Answers

philipfrey
philipfrey
1,659 Points
philipfrey
philipfrey
1,659 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Dr. Xstein | Evil Web Scientist</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:400,700|Arvo:400,700,400italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id=logo>
        <h1>Dr. Xstein's Secret Weblab</h1>
        <h2>The root of all web evil</h2>
      </a>
       <nav>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="monologue.html"> Evil Monologue</a></li>
            <li><a href="horrors.html">Web Horrors</a></li>
            <li><a href="donate.html">Donate</a></li>
          </ul>
        </nav>
      </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul id="gallery">
          <li>
            <a href ="img/popups1.png">
              <img src="img/popups1.png" alt="">
              <p>Popups, the scourge of the web.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/horror2.jpg">
              <img src="img/horror2.jpg" alt="">
              <p>You know they aren't free.</p>
            </a>    
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://www.facebook.com"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="twitter logo"></a>
        <a href="http://www.twitter.com"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="facebook logo"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2014 Filip Eckstein - Browse at your own risk! &trade;</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

/*************************
GENERAL
**************************/

body {
  font-family: 'Arvo', sans-serif;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width:940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}


a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

img {
  max-width 100%;
}


/*************************
HEADING
**************************/

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

h1 {
  font-family: 'Dosis', sans-serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  margin: - 5x 0 0;
  font-weight:normal;
}



/*************************
NAVIGATION
**************************/

nav {
  font-family: 'Dosis', sans-serif;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 10px 0;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
}


/*************************
FOOTER
**************************/

footer {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  text-align: center;
  padding-top: 50px;
  color:#ccc;
}




/*************************
PAGE: HORRORS
**************************/

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

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}



/*************************
COLORS
**************************/

/* site body */
body {
  color: #999;
  background-color:#fff;
}

/* green header*/
header {
  background-color: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599868;
}

/* nav background on mobile devices*/
nav {
  background-color:#599868;
}

/* logo text*/
h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

/*links*/
a {
  color: #6ab47b;
}

/*nav link*/
nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #ffffff
}

/*selected nav link*/
nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
  color: #36673f
}
Jason Anello
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Filip,

You're missing a : on your max-width property here:

img {
  max-width 100%;
}
philipfrey
philipfrey
1,659 Points
philipfrey
philipfrey
1,659 Points

Thank you!