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CSS CSS Layout Basics Getting Started with CSS Layout Centering Page Content and Creating a Full-width Header

Mukund Narasimhan
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Mukund Narasimhan
Courses Plus Student 9,332 Points
Posted by Mukund Narasimhan
Mukund Narasimhan
Courses Plus Student 9,332 Points

https://w.trhou.se/c1ozfafvnq i am not getting full layout in header and footer can any 1 help me

https://w.trhou.se/c1ozfafvnq

i am not getting full layout in header and footer can any 1 help me out i have done as shown in this video

3 Answers

Gianmarco Mazzoran
Gianmarco Mazzoran
22,076 Points
Gianmarco Mazzoran
Gianmarco Mazzoran
22,076 Points

Hi,

if you inspect the index.html with the inspector tool in Chrome you'll se that in the normalize.css file on the line 19 there is this declaration that doesn't allows the full width of the header and the footer.

This is the rule in your normalize.css on the line 19:

normalize.css 
body {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width:70%; /* simply remove this property */
}

To make it works:

normalize.css 
body {
  margin: 0 auto;
}
Gianmarco Mazzoran
Gianmarco Mazzoran
22,076 Points
Gianmarco Mazzoran
Gianmarco Mazzoran
22,076 Points

Glad that I helped you! Happy coding! :smile:

George Fuller
George Fuller
1,507 Points
George Fuller
George Fuller
1,507 Points

Thanks a lot, this fixed it for me... although I didn't even have a rule for body in my normalize.css so I just scrolled to the very bottom and added in:

body {
margin: 0 auto;
}

and it fixed it! :)

Bob McCarty
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Bob McCarty
Courses Plus Student 16,618 Points
Bob McCarty
Bob McCarty
Courses Plus Student 16,618 Points

Mukund,

Try adding "max-width: 100%; to each."

.main-header {
    background: #3acec2;
        padding:1em 0;
        max-width: 100%;
}

.main-footer {
        text-align:center;
    padding: 2em 0;
    background: #d9e4ea;
        max-width: 100%;
}
James Velardi
James Velardi
1,349 Points
James Velardi
James Velardi
1,349 Points

Just add

body { width: 100%; }

nagamani palamuthi
nagamani palamuthi
6,160 Points
nagamani palamuthi
nagamani palamuthi
6,160 Points

thanks james , this worked!