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Nathan Watkins
4,696 Pointsmax-width does not change
Whenever I try to change the max-width in my main.css stylesheet, it does not affect anything. Here's my code with the main.css stylesheet at the bottom.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Nate | Site</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<a href="index.html">
<h1>Nate Watkins</h1>
<h2>Website</h2>
</a>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
<div id="wrapper">
<section>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
<img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
<p>Experimentation with color and texture</p>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
<img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
<p>Caption 2</p>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
<img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
<p>Caption 3</p>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
<img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
<p>Caption 4</p>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
<img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
<p>Caption 5</p>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<footer>
<a href="http://facebook.com">
<img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo">
</a>
<a href="http://twitter.com/swatkinsvu">
<img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo">
</a>
<p>© Nate Watkins, 2016</p>
</footer>
</div>
</body>
</html>
body {
background-color: #c2d6d6;
color: white;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
}
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0 5%;
background: red;
max-width: 940 px
}
2 Answers
David Bath
25,939 PointsWhy do you have a backslash before #wrapper? If that's in your actual code it could be breaking the selector. But probably it's broken because you have a space between 940 and px.
Nathan Watkins
4,696 PointsI added the backslash was because it was not initially showing up as code on here and causing some strange formatting. The space was the answer. Rookie mistake.
David Bath
25,939 PointsTypos happen. It's good to get another set of eyes on the code sometimes.