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CSS CSS Foundations The Box Model Positioning Properties

Posted by Benjamin Beezy
Benjamin Beezy
7,409 Points

I'm not sure why my .middle isn't passing.

I think I have everything right. Any ideas about what could be happening?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Positioning</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="wrapper">
        <div class="top">Top</div>
        <div class="middle">Middle</div>
        <div class="bottom">Bottom</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.wrapper { position: relative; };

.middle { position: relative; left: 100px; };

3 Answers

Shawn Williams
Shawn Williams
Courses Plus Student 4,462 Points

Have you tried removing the semi-colons that are located after the brackets? These are not needed.

Benjamin Beezy
Benjamin Beezy
7,409 Points

Wow. That worked. Thanks so much. However, I always thought it was best practice to put semi-colons after every rule. Is that not the case?

Shawn Williams
PLUS
Shawn Williams
Courses Plus Student 4,462 Points
Shawn Williams
Shawn Williams
Courses Plus Student 4,462 Points

The rules are what is located inside the selector. The brackets belong to the selector and not the rules.

samueljhan
samueljhan
1,732 Points
samueljhan
samueljhan
1,732 Points

If you do that then your code is wrong. You don't put the semi-colons inside the brackets because you are not doing JQuery which requires the semi-colon.

Shawn Williams
Shawn Williams
Courses Plus Student 4,462 Points

Samuel, the semicolons ONLY go inside the brackets in CSS.