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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Create a Horizontal List of Links

Emma Dellagatta
Emma Dellagatta
5,181 Points
Posted by Emma Dellagatta
Emma Dellagatta
5,181 Points

Select links inside nav element set their font weight to 800. set padding on the top and bot to 15 & L & R to 10px

Select the links inside the nav element and set their font weight to 800. Then, set padding on the top and bottom to 15 pixels. Set the padding on the left and right to 10 pixels.

here is the full question, ive tried setting the padding to

padding: 15px 10px all diffrent combos and it still wont work. am i missing something

css/main.css 
nav a { font-weight: 800; padding: 15px 0;}

 a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}


nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: ‘Changa One’, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}


nav ul { 
  margin: 0 10px;
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
display:inline-block;
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 15px 10px 10px;

1 Answer

Kevin Verbeeke
Kevin Verbeeke
3,190 Points
Kevin Verbeeke
Kevin Verbeeke
3,190 Points

hi, first nav li is for list items not links. and there is you should use "nav a". there is already a "nav a" in your code with color: fff; if you put font weight and padding there you should pass.

ore put it higher in the code like under "#logo" "nav a { font-weight: 800; padding: 15px 10px; }