Why does Column C get forced under Column A?

Question

Hi. I used the :not class to exclude Column A, but Column C was forced underneath it. Here's my HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Selectors</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito:400,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/base.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div id="container">
        <nav>
            <a href="#col-a">Column A</a>
            <a href="#col-b">Column B</a>
            <a href="#col-c">Column C</a>
        </nav>
        <div class="row group">
            <div id="col-a" class="col">
                <h2>Column A</h2>
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                <p>Donec rutrum magna mi, vitae congue elit egestas quis. Praesent ultrices rhoncus venenatis. </p>
            </div>
            <div id="col-b" class="col">
                <h2>Column B</h2>
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                <p>Nulla faucibus, vel lacinia ex lacinia. Nunc ut odio mattis magna vulputate viverra et et ligula.</p>
            </div>
            <div id="col-c" class="col">
                <form>
                    <h2>Column C</h2>

                    <label for="name">Name:</label> 
                    <input type="text" id="name">

                    <label for="email">Email:</label>
                    <input type="email" id="email" placeholder="email@website.com">

                    <input class="btn" type="submit" value="Sign up">
                </form>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

And my CSS:

:root {
  background: #e3effb;
}

:target {
  background: #384047;
  color: white;
}

#col-c:target {
  background: #eff1f2;
  color: initial;
  box-shadow: 0 0 6px rgba(0,0,0, .2);
}

input:not([type="submit"]) {
  box-shadow: inset 0 2px 0 rgba(0,0,0, .15);
}

.col:not(:first-child) {
  margin-left: 15px;
}

Does anyone know why this happens please?

Thanks

Sean :-)

Answer 1 · 2015-05-28T22:15:53Z

May 28, 2015 10:15pm

Hi Sean. The problem is occurring because when you add the left margin to the columns, the total width becomes greater than the width of the page. This forces the browser to float the last column below the others.

You could either lower the left-margin value under your .col:not(:first-child) selector, or open the base.css file and change the width of the .col class (I changed mine to 30% for testing purposes and this seemed to work fine.)

Hope this helps.

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