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CSS

Posted by Zeeshan Dawood
Zeeshan Dawood
7,210 Points

Need Css help. What am I missing or not understanding,

My objective is to make the .main-header container display in the CSS. However, I'm not understanding why it won't display.

Zeeshan Dawood
Zeeshan Dawood
7,210 Points

<doc html> <head> <title>Zeeshan Dawood</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystylesheet1.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="normalize.css">

</head>
<body>
    <div class="main-wrapper">
        <div class="color-boxes">
            <ul class="flex-container">
                <li class="flex-item">1</p></li>
                <li class="flex-item">2</li>
                <li class="flex-item">3</li>
                <li class="flex-item">4</li>
                <li class="flex-item">5</li>
                <li class="flex-item">6</li>

            </ul>
        </div>

        <div class="main-header">
            <h1>Zeeshan</h1>
            <h1>Dawood</h1>

                <ul>
                    <li>Artist</li>
                    <li>Designer</li>
                    <li>Developer</li>

                </ul>
        </div>

        <div class="main-bottom">
            <p>places to place the links</p>
        </div>


    </div>
</body>

</html>
Zeeshan Dawood
Zeeshan Dawood
7,210 Points 
*{
    padding:0px;
    margin:0px;
}
/********************************
    BACKGROUND
*********************************/

.main-wrapper{
        background-color:white;
        width:90%;
        height:90%;
        margin:auto;
}

/********************************
    Color Boxes Bar
*********************************/
.color-boxes{
    background-color:red;





}
.flex-container{
    background-color:yellow;
    padding:0;
    margin:0;
    list-style:none;


      display: -webkit-box;
      display: -moz-box;
      display: -ms-flexbox;
      display: -webkit-flex;
      display: flex;



     justify-content: space-around;
}     



.flex-item{

    background-color:blue;
    padding:0px;
    width:auto;
    /*height:100%;*/
    /*I am not understanding what happens here when the height is turned on ***/
    margin:0px;

    flex-grow:1;


    color:white;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 2em;
    text-align: center;

}

/********************************
    Main Header
*********************************/
}
.main-header{

            background-color:black;
            color:white;
            margin:;
            padding:0;

            text-align:center;
            text-transform:uppercase;



}
.main-header li
{

            }


/********************************
    Main bottom
*********************************/
.main-bottom{
            background-color:gray;
            color:white;
            margin:0;
            padding:0;
            border:none;
            padding: 1px;
            height:45%;

}

/********************************
    Media Query 1
*********************************/
Zeeshan Dawood
Zeeshan Dawood
7,210 Points

I found it. It was a syntax error. Sorry.

1 Answer

Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points
Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points

Glad you managed to solve your problem there Zeeshan.

Keep up the good work with your programming!