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CSS

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

Why is everything in red?

I have a problem with css elements. Almost all of my css elements are in red yet there is no problem with the code as I run it though css validator and no errors were found. Does anyone know where could be a mistake? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Martin,

Could you please post the code you have.

19 Answers

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

This might be the issue: http://cl.ly/WiZ5. Try adding a closing curly bracket on line 85

You are nesting tags, which works with scss but not plain css.

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

Can you send a screenshot of this? Are the elements showing up in red in the browser or are you not even able to load the page correctly?

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

For instance, in this code i have the following elements in red: #gallery, #gallery li, #gallery li a p

gallery {

margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }

gallery li {

float: left; width: 45%; margin: 2.5%; background-color: #f5f5f5; color: #bdc3c7; }

gallery li a p {

margin: 0; padding: 5%; font-size: 0.75em; color: #bdc3c7; }

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

Are you using chrome? If you right click on the element and click "Inspect Element" http://cl.ly/Witw it should show you where the styles are coming from: http://cl.ly/Wijj

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

I would need to fix it in workspaces. Went into the Inspect Element and just found out that elements are displayed in red there too. Don't really know how to figure out there where the problem is.

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

Can you send a screenshot of your browser? That info will help me understand what is going on

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

I am a lost cause, I don't know how. Whatever I do it won't display.

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

To create a screenshot on you mac you can press "Command + Shift + 4" if you're focused on the browser.

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

I know, I have the screenshot saved as jpg on my desktop. But how do I put it in here?

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

You can use a cloud storage tool like dropbox or cloudapp

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

Hmm that seems very strange. Maybe there is something wrong with the Treehouse text-editor validator? Is the syntax for all the css further up in the file correct?

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

This is how the rest of the code looks: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0urpaglhahakbk/Screenshot1.jpg

There must be something wrong with it or I don't know what else could it be. Either way, thank you for your effort to help me out!

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

Didn't help unfortunately. There must be something wrong with the text-editor validator. It changed to red all of the sudden when I added some class to html. Nothing wrong was with the class, but when I deleted the class anyway the red remained.

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

Maybe there is a syntax error further up. Do you have a github account? If so can you paste the whole file into a gist? https://gist.github.com/

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

I created an account. This is it:https://github.com/Martincz26/Treehouse-css Don't know why it is so unorganized though.

Martin Švec
Martin Švec
8,208 Points

Thank you very much! I have gone through it many times, but this must have escaped my eye.

You have been very helpful, thank you again!

Adam Waxman
Adam Waxman
8,779 Points

No problem, good luck with learning to code!