I've been stuck for hours. My columns just wont work..

Question

Columns are at 40%, 30%, 30%. Border box is on and they just wont appear on the same line. Im lost.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Best City Guide</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body>

    <header class="main-header">
      <div class="wrap clearfix">
        <h1 class="name"><a href="#">Best City Guide</a></h1>
        <ul class="main-nav">
            <li><a href="#">ice cream</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">donuts</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">tea</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">coffee</a></li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </header><!--/.main-header-->   

    <div class="banner">
        <div class="container center">
          <img class="logo" src="img/city-logo.svg" alt="City">
          <h1 class="headline">The Best City</h1>
          <span class="tagline">The best drinks and eats in the best city ever.</span>
        </div>
    </div><!--/.banner-->

    <div class="container clearfix">
      <div class="secondary col">
          <h2>Welcome!</h2>
          <p>Everything in this city is worth waiting in line for.</p>
          <p>Cupcake ipsum dolor sit. Amet chocolate cake gummies jelly beans candy bonbon brownie candy. Gingerbread powder muffin. Icing cotton candy. Croissant icing pie ice cream brownie I love cheesecake cookie. Pastry chocolate pastry jelly croissant.</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. Tootsie roll wafer I love chocolate donuts.</p>
      </div><!--/.secondary-->

      <div class="primary col">
          <h2>Great food</h2>
          <img class="feat-img" src="img/treats.svg" alt="Drinks and eats">
          <p>Croissant macaroon pie brownie. Cookie marshmallow liquorice gingerbread caramels toffee I love chocolate. Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum. Marzipan toffee drag&#233;e chocolate bar candy toffee pudding I love. Gummi bears pie gingerbread lollipop.</p>
      </div><!--/.primary-->

      <div class="tertiary col">
          <h2>How to get here</h2>
          <p><strong>Plane: </strong>Tiramisu caramels gummies chupa chups lollipop muffin. Jujubes chocolate caramels cheesecake brownie lollipop drag&#233;e cheesecake.</p>
          <p><strong>Train: </strong>Pie apple pie pudding I love wafer toffee liquorice sesame snaps lemon drops. Lollipop gummi bears dessert muffin I love fruitcake toffee pie.</p>
          <p><strong>Car: </strong>Jelly cotton candy bonbon jelly-o jelly-o I love. I love sugar plum chocolate cake pie I love pastry liquorice.</p>
      </div><!--/.tertiary-->   
    </div>

    <footer class="main-footer clearfix center">
        <span>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City Ever.</span>
    </footer>

</body>
</html>

* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  color: #414040;
  font-family: 'Varela Round', sans-serif;
  line-height: 1.6;
  font-size: 16px;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

p {
  line-height: 1.5;
  font-size: 0.95em;
  margin-bottom: 1.8em;
}

a:link,
a:visited {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #3acec2;
}

.main-header {
  padding: 0.5em 0;
}
.name {
  margin: 0;
}

.name a {
  color: #0b024a;
  font-size: 0.6em;
}

.name a,
.main-nav a{
  display: block;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 10px 15px;
}


.main-nav {
  text-transform: uppercase;
}



.banner {
  color: #fff;
  background: #3acec2;
  padding: 3em 0;
}

.logo {
  width: 190px;
}



.headline {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

.tagline {
  margin-top: 0;
}

.main-footer {
  background: #bddfea;
  padding: 2em;
}

.col {
  padding-left: 1em;
  padding-right: 1em;
}

.container {
  width: 90%;
  max-width: 1150px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

.wrap {
  width: 80%;
  max-width: 1150px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

.center {
  text-align: center;
}
@media (min-width: 769px) {

    .container {
        width: 90%;
        margin: 0 auto;
    }

    .name,
    .col {
        float: left;
    }

    .primary,
    .secondary {
        width: 50%;
    }

    .main-nav {
        float: right;
    }

    .main-nav li {
        display: inline-block;
        margin-left: 15px;
    }

    .tagline {
        font-size: 1.4em;
    }

    /* ---- Float clearfix ---- */

    .clearfix::after {
        content: " ";
        display: table;
        clear: both;
    }

}

@media (min-width: 1025px) {

  body {
    padding-top: 60px;
  }

  .main-header {
    position: fixed;
    background: #fff;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,.4);
    width: 100%;
    top: 0;
    z-index: 1000;

  }

    .container {
        width: 80%;
        max-width: 1150px;
    }

    .primary {
        width: 40%;
    }

    .secondary,
    .tertiary {
        width: 30%;
    }

}

Answer 1 · 2018-02-20T19:53:34Z

February 20, 2018 7:53pm

How are the columns not behaving as expected? The primary, secondary/tertiary are set at those widths once the viewport reaches the minimum 1025px. It's doing exactly what it's set to do.

Open your browser's dev tools and watch the styles take effect when you resize the viewport.

Answer 2 · 2018-02-25T07:37:42Z

February 25, 2018 7:37am

I had to delete " *{box-sizing: border-box;}" and re-type it then it worked. It wasn't working for some reaason haha, thanks anyway.

Answer 3 · 2018-05-10T10:03:34Z

May 10, 2018 10:03am

Alternatively set the width of the columns to 33% and make them inline-block You don't need to use floats then.

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