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CSS

mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points
Posted by mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points

The border around my nav bar will not show up in google chrome.

I've been experimenting with ems and pixels for my resume website. I decided to change my pixel units to em units. When I used pixel units my nav bar border showed up on I.E., Firefox, and Google Chrome. After I changed my pixel units to em units the nav border still showed up in I.E., and Firefox, but not Chrome. Does Chrome require a developer rule in css that I'm missing?

Also I would like to increase the font size of my text in my nav bar, but I'm unsure of where to that in the .nav, .nav li, or . nav a Thanks in advace for any help. The code is below.

.nav { 
    border: 1em solid #ccc; 
    border-width: .05em 0; 
    list-style: none; 
    margin: 0; 
    padding: 0; 
    text-align: center; 
} 
.nav li { display: inline; } 
.nav a { 
    display: inline-block; 
    padding: .63em; 
    text-decoration: none;

2 Answers

Dave McFarland
STAFF
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

The problem is the border-width declaration: border-width: .05em 0; If the default text size for the page is 16px, then .05 em is .8 pixel -- that's less than 1 pixel so Chrome (and Safari) round this down to 0, showing no border.

mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points
mrx3
mrx3
8,742 Points

Thanks David for the help. I'll change that and let you know how it works. Editing the post It's fixed David!!! Thank you so much for the help my nav now looks awesome in all three, I'm so happy Thank you again!!!!!!