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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Flexbox Layout Flexbox Layout Challenge

Suxin Deng
Suxin Deng
804 Points
Posted by Suxin Deng
Suxin Deng
804 Points

question about challenge task4

I have problem writing the correct code. Anyone could help me? "Finally, let's reverse the column order by giving secondary the flexbox property and value that moves it to the beginning of the row."

my code: .secondary col{ flex:1; order:-1;}

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Flexbox</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="main-wrapper">
        <header class="main-header">
            <ul class="main-nav">
                <li class="main-logo"><h1><a href="#">My Work</a></h1></li>
                <li><a href="#">Design</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Coding</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Writing</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Hire Me!</a></li>
            </ul>
        </header>
        <div class="content-row">
            <div class="primary col">
                <h1>I'm a Designer</h1>
                <p>I design beautiful user interfaces, then bring them to life with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I love including personal photographs of nature, people and everyday things in my designs.</p>
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            </div>
            <div class="secondary col">
                <h2>I Also Write</h2>
                <p>I like teaching others about the latest web in technology. So when I'm not designing or coding websites &amp; apps, you'll find me writing <a href="#">articles for my blog</a>.</p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
@media (min-width: 611px) {

    /* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
  .main-nav {
        display:flex;}

  .main-nav li{flex-grow:1;}
  .content-row {display: flex;}

  .secondary {
       flex:1;
       order: -1;}
}

2 Answers

Paul M
Paul M
16,370 Points
Paul M
Paul M
16,370 Points

Are you selecting 

.secondary {

}

or

.secondary col {

}

you should only be selecting secondary. The problem could also be your flex order.

Joey Ward
PLUS
Joey Ward
Courses Plus Student 24,305 Points
Joey Ward
Joey Ward
Courses Plus Student 24,305 Points

You wrote: my code: .secondary col{ flex:1; order:-1;}

You want to just use: .secondary { flex:1; order:-1;}

Paul M
Paul M
16,370 Points
Paul M
Paul M
16,370 Points

Yes, it should only be the class secondary.