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Ryan Dagg
1,739 PointsWorking with Grids error?
I'm going through the intro HTML course and am on Working with Grids and there appears to be a very misleading error at 7:17. I have loaded the page we have been developing to this point in Firefox, IE & Chrome and it doesn't look the way it does in the video. At first I was sure that I had just made an error somewhere, but then produced the same exact page by removing lines 7&9 from the downloaded index.html that works correctly. I also placed the normalize stylesheet above the grid stylesheet as we had done so far. This error just cost me 30+ min of thinking I was crazy. Am I crazy?
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James Barnett
39,199 PointsRyan -
It's hard to say without seeing the code you used to link the stylesheets as well as a screenshot of your directory structure.
If you didn't unzip those directories and create a directory structure the same as Nick did in the video, that could be your issue.
In most cases this is an issue with file paths here's a quick primier on the basics of file paths that should get you going.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsRyan -
This error just cost me 30+ min of thinking I was crazy.
I've spent many an hour chasing my own tail while troubleshooting.
Liking coding is largely about enjoying spending the better part of a day hunting for a misplaced semi-colon. I've learned a lot of valuable information from doing something wrong and learning how to fix it.
Parsing directions, spotting errors in the instructions as well as typos in your own code are all valuable real-world skills I use every day.
As is puzzling out how something is currently setup when you have no documentation telling you how things are supposed to work.