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CSS CSS Layout Basics Getting Started with CSS Layout Layout Wrapper Challenge

I don't get what I did wrong in the exercise

Can someone tell me what is wrong with the code

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Getting Started with CSS Layout</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
    <body>
    <div class ="container">
        <header>
            <h1>Best City Guide</h1>
        </header>

        <div class="main">
            <h2>Welcome!</h2>
            <p>Dessert toffee chocolate lollipop fruitcake cake sweet. Pudding cotton candy chocolate pudding liquorice jelly marzipan. Muffin gummies topping lollipop. Caramels chocolate cake donut liquorice.</p>
            <p>Cake sesame snaps sweet tart candy canes tiramisu I love oat cake chocolate bar. Jelly beans pastry brownie sugar plum pastry bear claw tiramisu tootsie roll.</p>
        </div>

        <footer>
            <p>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City.</p>
        </footer>
    </div>
    </body>
</html>
style.css
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.container{
  width: 80%;
  margin : 0 auto  ;
}

1 Answer

Hey Meghana,

Remove the space between margin and the following colon.

It's also best practice to not put a space between your value and the semicolon.

Thanks