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Alex Henricks
7,911 PointsProperties of Inline-Block Elements
I know block elements are able to receive width, height values as well as top and bottom margin/padding values.
Inline elements are restricted to merely left and right padding and margins correct?
So if an element is Inline-block, what are its limitations?
It seemed like in the video it was that Inline-block elements were essentially block elements that didn't have a page break. Though we had to make the links of the nav bar block elements in order for the top and bottom padding to take effect.
I thought that when we set the .main-nav li {display:inline-block;} that the <a> elements contained inside those <li> elements would also be inline-block?
Or am I misunderstanding this?
1 Answer
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Pointsinline block elements should allow us to have a good navigation bar but still have all the padding and margin properties availabe.
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/d/display/ http://learnlayout.com/inline-block.html