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CSS CSS Flexbox Layout Building a Layout with Flexbox Flexbox Columns Challenge

Posted by Karen Creighton
Karen Creighton
30,185 Points

not finding the FlexBox property I need to determine the space of columns

I've searched through the videos, but am missing the property that has the 300px detail it wants in this challenge

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.row {
  display: flex;
}
.column {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;

}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Flexbox Layout</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="row">   
      <div class="secondary column">
        <h2>Welcome!</h2>
        <p>Everything in this city is worth waiting in line for. Cupcake ipsum dolor sit.</p>
        <p>Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum.</p>
      </div>

      <div class="primary column">
        <h2>How to get here</h2>
        <p><strong>Plane: </strong>Tiramisu caramels gummies chupa chups lollipop muffin. Jujubes chocolate caramels cheesecake brownie lollipop drag&#233;e cheesecake.</p>
        <p><strong>Train: </strong>Pie apple pie pudding I love wafer toffee liquorice sesame snaps lemon drops. Lollipop gummi bears dessert muffin.</p>
        <p><strong>Car: </strong>Jelly cotton candy bonbon jelly-o jelly-o I love. I love sugar plum chocolate cake pie I love pastry liquorice.</p>
      </div>

      <div class="tertiary column">
        <h2>Great food</h2>
        <p>Croissant macaroon pie brownie. Cookie marshmallow liquorice gingerbread.</p>
        <p>Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum.</p>
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

1 Answer

M Gavin
M Gavin
17,906 Points 
flex-basis: 300px;

Flex-basis sets the minimum width of a column.

Karen Creighton
Karen Creighton
30,185 Points

Thanks, but I'm still getting the same error message that I need the property that determines how much space the columns should take up.

M Gavin
M Gavin
17,906 Points

Ah, you also need 

flex-grow:1;

Here's a good guide to flexboxes https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

Karen Creighton
Karen Creighton
30,185 Points

Yay! The addition of the flex-grow line was the trick :) Thanks, too, for the link to the CSS site.