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CSS How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Adding Breakpoints for Devices

Posted by Becky Vasick
Becky Vasick
1,649 Points

@media and (min-width 480px) is not working like Nick Pettit's.

I am following along with Nick, and I have come to the point where I am supposed to add responsive.css and then in there, add @media and (min-width 480px) I have been following very closely, checked, double checked, and triple checked my work, and still my changes do not show up when I make my screen bigger like they do on Nick's.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css"> This is the code on my index.html

@media screen and (min-width 480px) { body { background: navy; } } This is the code on my responsive.css

The background doesn't change to navy when I make the screen bigger.

Robert Vaida
Robert Vaida
8,718 Points
Robert Vaida
Robert Vaida
8,718 Points

Hey Becky

did you somehow forgot the colon ( : ) after min-width property?

2 Answers

Becky Vasick
Becky Vasick
1,649 Points
Becky Vasick
Becky Vasick
1,649 Points

Update:

I deleted all that I had written, including the new file, and just redid the whole thing, and blam... it works. I cannot say what I did differently, I must have had a typo or something somewhere that I just couldn't see.

Thank you Jamie for trying so hard to help. I did try all your suggestions, but they didn't work, and i'm guessing because of this typo...

That was highly frustrating to say the least!!!! But I am glad I can move on now.

Jaime Rios
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Jaime Rios
Courses Plus Student 21,100 Points
Jaime Rios
Jaime Rios
Courses Plus Student 21,100 Points

Hi, Bechy! I think you should try using the background-color: navy; instead of background: navy.

Becky Vasick
Becky Vasick
1,649 Points

I have that... it doesn't work :(

Will Long
Will Long
5,449 Points

that would change the screen to navy