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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS Make It Beautiful With CSS Adding a Style to several Elements using Class

Annika Song
Annika Song
2,033 Points
Posted by Annika Song
Annika Song
2,033 Points

Where should I put the margin and padding in this CSS file??

Thank you for replying.

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>List Example</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
  </head>
  <body>

    <a class= "social-links" href="#">Follow me on Twitter!</a>
    <a class= "social-links" href="#">Send me an Email!</a>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
.social-links
{ }

2 Answers

Joe Dodd
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Joe Dodd
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Joe Dodd
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Joe Dodd
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You're almost there. You've created the declaration in the CSS file, now you need to add the margin and padding rules.

.social-links {
    // code here
}
Annika Song
Annika Song
2,033 Points
Annika Song
Annika Song
2,033 Points

.social-links { margin=10px; padding=15px; }

is this the right thing to do?

Michael Fazekas
Michael Fazekas
3,070 Points
Michael Fazekas
Michael Fazekas
3,070 Points

any value goes in between the curly brackets in the CSS file. like this. /Just replace the display and color with margin and padding and remember to use pixels or ems or rem's./ Just keep coding you got this!

.social-links {
    display: inline-block;
    color: #000000;
}