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30,185 Pointsnot finding the FlexBox property I need to determine the space of columns
I've searched through the videos, but am missing the property that has the 300px detail it wants in this challenge
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.row {
display: flex;
}
.column {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Flexbox Layout</title>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="row">
<div class="secondary column">
<h2>Welcome!</h2>
<p>Everything in this city is worth waiting in line for. Cupcake ipsum dolor sit.</p>
<p>Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum.</p>
</div>
<div class="primary column">
<h2>How to get here</h2>
<p><strong>Plane: </strong>Tiramisu caramels gummies chupa chups lollipop muffin. Jujubes chocolate caramels cheesecake brownie lollipop dragée cheesecake.</p>
<p><strong>Train: </strong>Pie apple pie pudding I love wafer toffee liquorice sesame snaps lemon drops. Lollipop gummi bears dessert muffin.</p>
<p><strong>Car: </strong>Jelly cotton candy bonbon jelly-o jelly-o I love. I love sugar plum chocolate cake pie I love pastry liquorice.</p>
</div>
<div class="tertiary column">
<h2>Great food</h2>
<p>Croissant macaroon pie brownie. Cookie marshmallow liquorice gingerbread.</p>
<p>Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum.</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
1 Answer
M Gavin
17,906 Pointsflex-basis: 300px;
Flex-basis sets the minimum width of a column.
Karen Creighton
30,185 PointsKaren Creighton
30,185 PointsThanks, but I'm still getting the same error message that I need the property that determines how much space the columns should take up.
M Gavin
17,906 PointsM Gavin
17,906 PointsAh, you also need
flex-grow:1;
Here's a good guide to flexboxes https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Karen Creighton
30,185 PointsKaren Creighton
30,185 PointsYay! The addition of the flex-grow line was the trick :) Thanks, too, for the link to the CSS site.