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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Image Captions

Posted by Gantulga Jargalsaikhan
Gantulga Jargalsaikhan
1,524 Points

when i say to footer element to clear: both; nothing happening what shoud i do?

footer { clear: both; }

Taylor Espejo
Taylor Espejo
3,939 Points
Taylor Espejo
Taylor Espejo
3,939 Points

hard to diagnose without the rest of your code

Christopher Chard
Christopher Chard
3,087 Points
Christopher Chard
Christopher Chard
3,087 Points

do your ids (wrapper, gallery, logo) have #before them in your css file? (e.g. #wrapper { } ) ?

2 Answers

Brian Bochicchio
Brian Bochicchio
19,978 Points
Brian Bochicchio
Brian Bochicchio
19,978 Points

I accidentally had my social icons outside the footer tag. So it looked like the clear wasn't working, but it was.

Xayaseth Boudsady
Xayaseth Boudsady
21,951 Points
Xayaseth Boudsady
Xayaseth Boudsady
21,951 Points

So I had similar issue. I'm actually building this outside the workspace in a Chrome Browser. Seems like the issue is that that an older copy of the CSS still persist and the new changes are not overriding the footer element properties. I had to open the Inspector, go to settings and check the "Disable cache(while DevTools is open)