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CSS CSS Layout Techniques Display Modes Column Layout with Inline-Block

Yerui Yu
Yerui Yu
3,216 Points
Posted by Yerui Yu
Yerui Yu
3,216 Points

why does I set the width "initial" in the media query can make the column responsive?

as the title

2 Answers

Daron Spence
Daron Spence
7,895 Points

Block level elements are normally 100% width of the parent element. This makes them stack on top of each other and become fluid.

lovell
lovell
7,882 Points
lovell
lovell
7,882 Points

Yerui,

-INITIAL-simply reverts the element in question back to what it initially was further up the code. Hope this helps :-)