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CSS

Posted by Mani Saini
Mani Saini
3,101 Points

Second Media Query

I am not sure why there was a use of width - 45% for the navigation :

nav { background: none; float :right; font-size:1.1.25em; margin-right: 5%; text-align: right; width : 45% }

I removed the width and tested the site but no changes so not sure why it was used in the first place.

1 Answer

Andre Taplin
Andre Taplin
1,374 Points
Andre Taplin
Andre Taplin
1,374 Points

Hi Mani,

Maybe the use of the width property is simply a precaution in case different browsers on different devices interpret our web page differently. We want our nav elements to have a fixed with of 45% of the page justified on the right side. When you delete the width in your code, the normalize.css is used which probably regulates the width of nav to some default value which is why you see no change. If you were to change the value (%) of width, however, you would see why we use 45% instead of another like, say, 1% or 75%. I think it's there so the hosting device/browser can have a set value.