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CSS

Posted by Kazira von miaow
Kazira von miaow
355 Points

The bottom image is in the middle of the page, I want it to be on the left side. Please help!

For some reason the bottom image hasn't shifted unlike the other images which are now in two columns. Thank you ! Here's my code

html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title> Miaow Mail </title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans+Condensed:300|Lobster' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Miaow Mail</h1>
        <h2>A comprehensive email service for cats</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul id="gallery">
        <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Experimentation with color and texture</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Playing with blending modes in photoshop</p>
            </a>
            </li>
           <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Trying to create an 80s style of glows</p>
            </a>
            </li>
            <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Drips created using photoshop brushes</p>
            </a>
            </li>
             <li>
          <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
          <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Creating shapes using repetition</p>
            </a>
            </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
          <a href="https://twitter.com/mariposa4444"><img src="img/twitter.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
        <a href="https://www.facebook.com/monifa.alfayed"><img src="img/facebook.png" alt="Facebook Logo"</a>  

       <a><p>&copy; 2015 MiaowMail, a student of Nick Pettit.</p></a>
        </footer>
      </div>
  </body>
</html> 

/********************************/
GENERAL
/********************************/

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 5%;
}

a { 
  text-decoration: none;
}

#img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

/********************************/
HEADING
/********************************/


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

h1 {
  font-family: 'Open Sans Condensed', sans-serif;
  margin: 15px 0;
  font-size: 1.75em
   font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em
}

h2 { 
  font-size: 0.75em;
  margin: -5px 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
}

/********************************/
NAVIGATION
/********************************/
nav { 
  text-align: center;
  padding: 10px 0;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
}

/********************************/
FOOTER
/********************************/
footer { 
  text-align: center;
  padding-top: 50px;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
  color: #ccc;
}


/********************************/
PAGE PORTFOLIO
/********************************/

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

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

/********************************/
FOOTER
/********************************/
footer { 
  text-align: center;
  padding-top: 50px;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
  color: #ccc;
}



/********************************/
COLOURS
/********************************/


/*site body*/
body {
  background-color: #fff;
  color: #999
}

/* green header */

header {
  text-align: center;
 background: #6ab47b;
  border-color: #599a68;
}

/* nav background on mobile*/
nav {
  background: #599a68;
}

/* logo text */

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

/*links*/

a {
  color: #6ab47b;
}


/*nav link*/

nav a, nav a:visited {
  color: #fff;
}

/* selected nav links*/

nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

footer p {
  color: #ccc;
}
Suresh Raina
Suresh Raina
Courses Plus Student 205 Points

i think's it's due to float so add below code to your file

<ul id="gallery" class="clearfix">

.clearfix{
    content: "";
    display: table;
    clear: both;
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
242,796 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
242,796 Points

You have several improperly formatted comments that are interfering with the CSS. For example, where you have:

/********************************/
GENERAL
/********************************/

To include the word GENERAL as part of the comments, remove the 2nd and 3rd slash (/) characters, like this:

/********************************
GENERAL
********************************/

There are several of these, be sure to get them all.

Also, you have floats in the gallery area that are never cleared. A popular way to clear floats is to add a pseudo-element after their container, like this:

#gallery::after {
  display: block;
  content: "";
  clear: both;
}

This is known as a "clearfix".

Kazira von miaow
Kazira von miaow
355 Points

Thank you! What are floats? how many of those pseudo elements should I put in? I did search for floats and found css img { float: right; } Is that a float? But in the code you kindly gave me there is no word float?