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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications The Basic Structure of a Web Page

Posted by Christopher McCorkel
Christopher McCorkel
Courses Plus Student 1,265 Points

Header structure of this page

Why is the main-nav div element not within the <header> structure of this page? As a beginner, that would make more sense to me.

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Cameron Childres
Cameron Childres
11,820 Points
Cameron Childres
Cameron Childres
11,820 Points

There's no hard and fast rule that navigation has to be inside the header element. For this page, style.css adds some top padding to the header. Try putting the navigation div inside the header and preview the page to see why the choice was made to not include it in the header element.

Christopher McCorkel
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Christopher McCorkel
Courses Plus Student 1,265 Points
Christopher McCorkel
Christopher McCorkel
Courses Plus Student 1,265 Points

I appreciate that. I just tried moving the .main-nav div into the header, which caused the div to move into an undesirable position in the viewport. I'm guessing that there is a styling conflict between the .main-nav and the header element, but I don't yet understand how to diagnose that.

Cameron Childres
Cameron Childres
11,820 Points
Cameron Childres
Cameron Childres
11,820 Points

That was me a couple days ago. Keep at it on the track and you will very soon :)