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Tracy Excell
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,333 Pointsstyling navigation links with borders
Hi,
I am working on a project and am trying to style my navigation links (in column form). I need them to have a white border / background and be separated by about 10px. I also want their width to take up most of the length of the device. My efforts are not working. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have tried adding a width and margins, but it is not really working.
.nav li a { display: block; color: black; border: soild 2px white; background-color: white; padding: 10px; text-decoration:none;
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherI agree with Siddhant Mehta . This is going to be easiest to troubleshoot if we can see your code. However, I can point out that the code you list here only targets the links inside the list items. Not the list items themselves. Also, you seem to be missing a closed curly brace.
2 Answers
Shane Oliver
19,977 PointsWithout seeing the code I would say to give the nav items margin bottom and width you would need to target the UL LI excluding the anchor
UL LI { margin-bottom: 10px; width: 100%; }
Tracy Excell
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,333 PointsThank you. This is what I was missing.
Tracy Excell
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 15,333 PointsThank you. This is what I was missing.
Siddhant Mehta
Courses Plus Student 478 PointsSiddhant Mehta
Courses Plus Student 478 PointsPlease try to show us code via snapshot of your workshop or paste your code on codepen