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CSS

Rachael Farquharson
Rachael Farquharson
5,234 Points

Navigation gets messed up when applying float: right to media queries

When I add float: right to the navigation in the responsive media queries, it messes up the links. What have I done wrong?

@media screen and (min-width: 660px) {

   /************************************
    PAGE: HEADER
    ***********************************/

  nav {
    background: none;
    float: right;
    font-size: 1.125em;
    margin-right: 5%;
    text-align: right;
    width: 45%;
  }

  #logo {
    float: left;
    margin-left: 5%;
    text-align: left;
    width: 45%;
  }

  h1 {
    font-size: 2.5em;
  }

  h2 {
    font-size: 0.825em;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
  }

  header {
    border-bottom:: 5px solid #006dcc;
  }

}
/************************************
header
***********************************/
#header {
  float:left;
  margin: 0 0 30px 0;
  padding: 5px 0 0 0;
  width: 100%;
   color: #FFFFFF;
}

#logo {
  max-width: 940px;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

header {
  background: #6abaff;
  padding: 40px 0 0;
}

header a {
   color: white;
}

/* site body */

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 5% 5%;
}
body {
  font-family: 'Merriweather', serif; font-weight: 400;
 background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

/* font styling */

a, p a:visited {
  color: #4dacff;
}

a:hover {
  color: #fff;
}

a, a:visited {
 text-decoration: none;
}

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

h2 {
  font-family: 'Merriweather', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style:italic ;
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: -5px 0 0;
}

h3, h4, p {
  font-family: 'Merriweather', serif; font-weight: 400;
}

h3 {
  margin: 0 0 1em 0;
}

/************************************
NAVIGATION
***********************************/
nav {
  text-align:center;
  padding: 10px 0;
  margin: 50px 0 0;
  background-color: #4dacff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #006dcc;
}
nav a.whaat {
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #006dcc;
}

nav ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;

}

nav a {
  padding: 15px 10px;
   color: white;
}

/************************************
FOOTER
***********************************/
footer {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  text-align:center;
  clear: both;
  padding-top: 50px;
  padding-bottom: 50px;
}

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

/************************************
gallery
***********************************/

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

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

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

/************************************
`PAGE: ABOUT
***********************************/

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  max-width: 80%;
  max-height: 80%;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
  border-radius: 80%;
}

/************************************
`PAGE: CONTACT
***********************************/

.contact-info {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}
.contact-info a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  margin: 0 0 10px;
}

.contact-info li.phone a {
  background-image: url('../img/phone.png');
}
.contact-info li.mail a {
  background-image: url('../img/mail.png');
}
.contact-info li.twitter a {
  background-image: url('../img/twitter.png');
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Rachael Farquharson | Designer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,700,600,400italic,700italic|Lora:400,400italic|Merriweather:400,700,700italic,400italic,300italic,900italic,900' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Rachael Farquharson</h1>
        <h2>Graphic Designer</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" class="whaat">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>

    <div id="wrapper">
    <section id="primary">
      <h3>General Information</h3>
      <p>Please only use phone contact for urgent matters, otherwise Twitter and email are ok</p>
         </section>
      <section id="secondary">
      <h3>Contact details</h3>
      <ul class="contact-info">
     <li class="phone"><a href="tel:555-5322">555-5322</a></li>
      <li class="mail"><a href="mailto:hellorachael.com">hellorachael.com</a></li>
        <li class="twitter"><a href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?screen_name=nihaorachael">@hellorachael</a></li>
      </ul>
     </section>

    <footer>
      <a href="http://hellorachael.com"><img src="img/twitter.png" alt="twitter" class="social-icon"></a>
      <a href="http://hellorachael.com"><img src="img/facebook.png" alt="facebook" class="social-icon"></a>
      <p>&copy; 2016 Rachael Farquharson.</p>
    </footer>

      </div>
  </body>

</html>

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,008 Points

For starters, your header could use a "clearfix":

  header::after {
    content: "";
    clear: both;
    display: block;
  }

There's probably a few more thinks to tweak, but that will make things visible again.

Also notice that you have two colons following border-bottom in the media query rule for header.

Rachael Farquharson
Rachael Farquharson
5,234 Points

Thank you so much for that. Couldn't figure it out. I am not familiar with this pseudo element so I will study it now. Cheers!

Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

Just remember that any time you float something left or right, you are taking out of the document flow and the rest of your HTML will act as if it has no height or width. The clearfix basically adds an element after it that clears both (left and right) and cause any subsequent elements to align properly.

I found this rule:

header { border-bottom:: 5px solid #006dcc; }

Can you see you have an extra colon after the border-bottom property? Try to fix and check if it works.