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HTML Build a Responsive Website Creating a Fluid Foundation Creating Flexible Margins

Henning Staves
Henning Staves
5,085 Points
Posted by Henning Staves
Henning Staves
5,085 Points

Problem with converting px to %

He Guys i need help, maybe i cannot see the wood for the trees The chapter of responsive websites there is following question and i cant seem to find the problem with my answer. The first task was to convert the margin of cake which worked fine.

Using .cake as your context, convert the margins on .filling from pixels to percentages.

  .icing {
    width: 100%; /*800px*/

  .cake {
    width: 80%; /*640px*/
    margin: 1.25%; /*10px / 800 = 0.0125*/

  .filling {
    width: 75%; /*480px*/
    margin: 1.56%; /*10px / 640 = 0.0156*/

Where is my mistake?

Thank you very much in advanced!

Henning

5 Answers

Kristopher Van Sant
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Kristopher Van Sant
Courses Plus Student 18,830 Points
Kristopher Van Sant
Kristopher Van Sant
Courses Plus Student 18,830 Points

Hello I would double check your calculations, It looks like you rounded the filling margin percentage.

Jason Lacy
Jason Lacy
2,717 Points
Jason Lacy
Jason Lacy
2,717 Points

I was doing the same thing, just don't round your calculation total at all and you should have it.

Henning Staves
Henning Staves
5,085 Points
Henning Staves
Henning Staves
5,085 Points

Thank you so much for your help! It was driving me crazy

Can you tell me please if we should not do any rounding at all?

Kristopher Van Sant
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Kristopher Van Sant
Courses Plus Student 18,830 Points
Kristopher Van Sant
Kristopher Van Sant
Courses Plus Student 18,830 Points

When doing your own personal work with html and css rounding up won't hurt. And while your designing a site I don't think that very slight number change will affect how you want the site to look. For this specific exercise and a few others Im guessing they want you to be exact when you can be. And when getting into programming you'll probably need to be more exact too.

Henning Staves
Henning Staves
5,085 Points
Henning Staves
Henning Staves
5,085 Points

Kristopher thank you very much for your answers!