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CSS

Posted by Mohammed tefou
Mohammed tefou
1,507 Points

My picture profile-photo won't respond to CSS changes?

I've set a class for my image as profile-photo but it won't respond to my CSS rules?

Mohammed tefou
Mohammed tefou
1,507 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title> Mohammed</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
  <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400,400italic,700,700italic,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
  <header>

    <a href="index.html" id="logo">

    <h1> Mohammed</h1>
    <h2>Omar</h2>
      </a>
    <nav>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="index.html" >Portofolio</a></li>
      <li><a href="about.html" class="selected"> About us</a></li>
      <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
      </ul>


    </nav>
    </header>
      <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
    <img src="img/nick.jpg" alt="Photo of Nick" class="profile-photo">

        <h3> About</h3>
        <p> Hi, I'm Nick! This is my very first website, i really do hope you like it, it took hard work and dedication!</p>
        <p>If you want to follow me on Twitter, my username is <a href="http://twitter.com">@nick</a></p>

      </section>
      <footer>
     <a href="http://twitter.com"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
       <a href="http://facebook.com"> <img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook" class="social-icon"></a>
      <p>
        2015 Mohammed Omar
        </p>
      </footer>









 </div>   

 </body>
</html>

The code is inside the "PAGE ABOUT" section in CSS

/**********************
GENERAL
***********************/
body {
 font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto; 
  padding: 0 5%;

}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}



/**********************
Heading
***********************/

#logo { 
  text-align: center;
  margin:o;
}

h1 {
 font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size:1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  margin: -5px 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
}



  /**********************
NAVIGATION
***********************/


nav {
   text-align: center;
    padding: 10px 0;
    margin: 20px 0 0;

  }

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}



nav a {

 font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

  /**********************
FOOTER
***********************/


  footer {
    font-size: 0.75em;
  text-align: center;
  clear:  both;
  padding-top: 50px;
  color:#ccc;


  }

.social-icon {
  width: 20px;
    height: 20px;
    margin: 0 5px;
}


/**********************
PAGE: PORTOFOLIO
***********************/


#gallery {

 margin: 0;
  padding 0;
  list-style: none;

}

#gallery li {
 float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
    color: #bdc3c7;
}

#gallery li a p {
 margin: 0;
  padding: 5%;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}


}

}


/**********************
PAGE ABOUT
***********************/

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


/**********************
COLOURS
***********************/
/* site body */

body {

 background-color: #fff;
  color:#999
}
/*green header */

header {
  background: #6ab47b;
  border-color:#599888;

}
/*nav background on mobile*/
nav { background-color: #599a68;
}



h1, h2 {

  color: #fff;
}
/*link colour*/
a {
  color:#6ab47b;
}

nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}
/*selected nav link colour*/
nav a.selected, nav a:hover {

 color:#32673f; 

}

2 Answers

Riku S.
Riku S.
11,322 Points

Above your .profile-photo rule in css there are two extra closing curly braces. Delete them and your style should work.

Mohammed tefou
Mohammed tefou
1,507 Points

life saver!

Rudy Tan
PLUS
Rudy Tan
Courses Plus Student 16,635 Points
Rudy Tan
Rudy Tan
Courses Plus Student 16,635 Points

On you Page Portfolio section in CSS there are too many closing curly bracket "}". You should delete them and it should work.

Mohammed tefou
Mohammed tefou
1,507 Points

thanks a lot! I figured