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CSS

Posted by Zach Kamp
Zach Kamp
5,259 Points

Side by side elements.

How do get two elements to display side by side. I can't seem to get the two boxes to not display diagonally. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>  <meta charset="utf-8" />    
    <title>title</title>
</head>
<body>
  <article>
   <div id="content"></div>
   <aside>
   </aside>
  </article>
</body>
</html>

CSS

article {
    width: 400px;
    height: 400px;
    background: orange;
    margin: 0;
    position:absolute;
}
div#content {
    width:150px;
    height:150px;
    background:yellow;
    margin-top:100px;
    position:relative;
}
aside {
    width: 150px;
    height: 150px;
    background: blue;
    margin: 0;
    float: right;
}

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

When selecting an 'id,' you use just #id_name.

Try removing "div" from your second declaration in CSS to read just "#content"

That should work.

Jason