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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add and Style Icons

Why does the padding make the display:block fail?

The code doesn't work as Task 1: to make display: block; fails after I enter the padding...

css/main.css
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}
contact-info, a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 30px 0 0 0;
}
#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}
ul , .contact-info {
  font-size: 0.9em;
  margin: 0 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}


.contact-info, a {
  display: block;
  min-height: 20px;
  background-repeat: norepeat;
  background-size: 20px 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
}
#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: Changa One, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

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

nav ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}

2 Answers

Hi Saad,

When using the padding short-hand property, the order of values are: Top Right Bottom Left

Your padding property is setting padding-top to 30px and the rest to 0.

thanks :)