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Amandeep Pasricha
Amandeep Pasricha
14,932 Points
Posted by Amandeep Pasricha
Amandeep Pasricha
14,932 Points

What was the reason for the 2nd column STILL appearing below the 1st column after changing the display to inline-block?

Hi,

I don't really understand how the margin space has anything to do with this. Technically, these inline-blocks should have been displayed horizontally, but I didn't understand the REAL reason for that as per the video.

This behaviour did not occur for the list items. When we changed the list items to inline blocks--they appeared side by side, but this wasn't the case here.

Thanks

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
225,742 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
225,742 Points

The "gutter" space between the columns is the reason they don't fit originally. The 50% width setting only applies to the elements themselves and does not account for the gutter space. So the total size is more than 100% until the negative margin is applied to consume the gutter.

All the list items combined still don't exceed 100% of the width, so they don't have this issue.