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HTML How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Refactor the Layout

Geoffrey Staysniak
Geoffrey Staysniak
3,550 Points
Posted by Geoffrey Staysniak
Geoffrey Staysniak
3,550 Points

I'm having consistent trouble with nth-child!

I am working on a challenge which asks me to clear left on every 4th item in my "gallery" id. I keep getting told that it's wrong, but I looked it over, I compare it to what was went over in the lesson, and I honestly don't know what I'm doing wrong here.

I feel like it's possibly something small yet obvious, but what that is exactly, I currently can't figure out.

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 {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}

.contact-info {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}

.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}

@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {

#gallery li {
width: 28.3333%
  }    

#gallery li: nth-child (4n) {
clear: left;
  }   

}

1 Answer

Javier Pons
Javier Pons
15,010 Points
Javier Pons
Javier Pons
15,010 Points

write li: nth-child (4n) without the space between nth-child and (4n). something like this: #gallery li: nth-child(4n) { clear: left; }

Geoffrey Staysniak
Geoffrey Staysniak
3,550 Points
Geoffrey Staysniak
Geoffrey Staysniak
3,550 Points

Thank you Javier - I was actually able to figure that out on my own (after too much time spent not realizing my spacing was off). Again though, thank you for helping confirm where I was going wrong!