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CSS CSS Foundations Text, Fonts, and Lists List Styles

Posted by Arthur Guerrero
Arthur Guerrero
3,244 Points

stuck on challenge question

Q: Add a bottom margin of 20px to the list items.

this is what I am typing: li {margin-bottom: 20px;}

it does not what to accept the answer...any ideas?

3 Answers

Richmond Lauman
Richmond Lauman
28,793 Points
Richmond Lauman
Richmond Lauman
28,793 Points

Hi Arthur.

They want you to select the list element and the list item element, which is a child of the list element. n your code you have just the list element. For example, if you wanted to style Instead of

li {
   some CSS properties
}

use

ul li {
  some CSS properties
}
Arthur Guerrero
Arthur Guerrero
3,244 Points
Arthur Guerrero
Arthur Guerrero
3,244 Points

Thanks for the help Richmond.