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HTML How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Build Navigation with Unordered Lists

Alex Hird
Alex Hird
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Posted by Alex Hird
Alex Hird
2,767 Points

why do i have to input display: inline-block; in nav li and not nav ul.

why do i have to input display: inline-block; in nav li and not nav ul. nav ul contains the list-style:none declaration so why can't it have the display: inline-block declaration. thanks

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Jennifer Nordell
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It could, but it's not really needed. An unordered list has a default display of block. A list item doesn't. So you have to tell the list items specifically to display the way that you want. Here's some information from the W3C.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/ul.html

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/li.html

Steve Brewer
Steve Brewer
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Steve Brewer
Steve Brewer
15,030 Points

Because you want the items in the list, the <li>'s to display inline and as blocks alongside the other items.

Putting it in the ul would make all ul elements display as inline blocks.