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CSS CSS Layout Basics Getting Started with CSS Layout CSS Reset with Normalize

Manuel Alejandro Matus de Quevedo
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Manuel Alejandro Matus de Quevedo
Courses Plus Student 6,407 Points

Why the ol & ul styles with the normalized file it's not being reflected?

Once I have inserted the code in the Normalized.ccs file, as explained in this video, I try to see if it applies the changes, and none of them it's being applied. I would like to know what I'm I doing wrong to correct it. Thanks in advance!

This is the normalize.css document:

/*! normalize.css v3.0.2 | MIT License | git.io/normalize */

/**

  • 1. Set default font family to sans-serif.
  • 2. Prevent iOS text size adjust after orientation change, without disabling
  • user zoom. */

html { font-family: sans-serif; /* 1 / -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; / 2 / -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; / 2 */ }

/**

  • Remove default margin. */

body { margin: 0; }

/* HTML5 display definitions ========================================================================== */

/**

  • Correct block display not defined for any HTML5 element in IE 8/9.
  • Correct block display not defined for details or summary in IE 10/11
  • and Firefox.
  • Correct block display not defined for main in IE 11. */

article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, footer, header, hgroup, main, menu, nav, section, summary { display: block; }

/**

  • 1. Correct inline-block display not defined in IE 8/9.
  • 2. Normalize vertical alignment of progress in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. */

audio, canvas, progress, video { display: inline-block; /* 1 / vertical-align: baseline; / 2 */ }

/**

  • Prevent modern browsers from displaying audio without controls.
  • Remove excess height in iOS 5 devices. */

audio:not([controls]) { display: none; height: 0; }

/**

  • Address [hidden] styling not present in IE 8/9/10.
  • Hide the template element in IE 8/9/11, Safari, and Firefox < 22. */

[hidden], template { display: none; }

/* Links ========================================================================== */

/**

  • Remove the gray background color from active links in IE 10. */

a { background-color: transparent; }

/**

  • Improve readability when focused and also mouse hovered in all browsers. */

a:active, a:hover { outline: 0; }

/* Text-level semantics ========================================================================== */

/**

  • Address styling not present in IE 8/9/10/11, Safari, and Chrome. */

abbr[title] { border-bottom: 1px dotted; }

/**

  • Address style set to bolder in Firefox 4+, Safari, and Chrome. */

b, strong { font-weight: bold; }

/**

  • Address styling not present in Safari and Chrome. */

dfn { font-style: italic; }

/**

  • Address variable h1 font-size and margin within section and article
  • contexts in Firefox 4+, Safari, and Chrome. */

h1 { font-size: 2em; margin: 0.67em 0; }

/**

  • Address styling not present in IE 8/9. */

mark { background: #ff0; color: #000; }

/**

  • Address inconsistent and variable font size in all browsers. */

small { font-size: 80%; }

/**

  • Prevent sub and sup affecting line-height in all browsers. */

sub, sup { font-size: 75%; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; }

sup { top: -0.5em; }

sub { bottom: -0.25em; }

/* Embedded content ========================================================================== */

/**

  • Remove border when inside a element in IE 8/9/10. */

img { border: 0; }

/**

  • Correct overflow not hidden in IE 9/10/11. */

svg:not(:root) { overflow: hidden; }

/* Grouping content ========================================================================== */

/**

  • Address margin not present in IE 8/9 and Safari. */

figure { margin: 1em 40px; }

/**

  • Address differences between Firefox and other browsers. */

hr { -moz-box-sizing: content-box; box-sizing: content-box; height: 0; }

/**

  • Contain overflow in all browsers. */

pre { overflow: auto; }

/**

  • Address odd em-unit font size rendering in all browsers. */

code, kbd, pre, samp { font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 1em; }

/* Forms ========================================================================== */

/**

  • Known limitation: by default, Chrome and Safari on OS X allow very limited
  • styling of select, unless a border property is set. */

/**

  • 1. Correct color not being inherited.
  • Known issue: affects color of disabled elements.
  • 2. Correct font properties not being inherited.
  • 3. Address margins set differently in Firefox 4+, Safari, and Chrome. */

button, input, optgroup, select, textarea { color: inherit; /* 1 / font: inherit; / 2 / margin: 0; / 3 */ }

/**

  • Address overflow set to hidden in IE 8/9/10/11. */

button { overflow: visible; }

/**

  • Address inconsistent text-transform inheritance for button and select.
  • All other form control elements do not inherit text-transform values.
  • Correct button style inheritance in Firefox, IE 8/9/10/11, and Opera.
  • Correct select style inheritance in Firefox. */

button, select { text-transform: none; }

/**

  • 1. Avoid the WebKit bug in Android 4.0.* where (2) destroys native audio
  • and video controls.
  • 2. Correct inability to style clickable input types in iOS.
  • 3. Improve usability and consistency of cursor style between image-type
  • input and others. */

button, html input[type="button"], /* 1 / input[type="reset"], input[type="submit"] { -webkit-appearance: button; / 2 / cursor: pointer; / 3 */ }

/**

  • Re-set default cursor for disabled elements. */

button[disabled], html input[disabled] { cursor: default; }

/**

  • Remove inner padding and border in Firefox 4+. */

button::-moz-focus-inner, input::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; padding: 0; }

/**

  • Address Firefox 4+ setting line-height on input using !important in
  • the UA stylesheet. */

input { line-height: normal; }

/**

  • It's recommended that you don't attempt to style these elements.
  • Firefox's implementation doesn't respect box-sizing, padding, or width. *
  • 1. Address box sizing set to content-box in IE 8/9/10.
  • 2. Remove excess padding in IE 8/9/10. */

input[type="checkbox"], input[type="radio"] { box-sizing: border-box; /* 1 / padding: 0; / 2 */ }

/**

  • Fix the cursor style for Chrome's increment/decrement buttons. For certain
  • font-size values of the input, it causes the cursor style of the
  • decrement button to change from default to text. */

input[type="number"]::-webkit-inner-spin-button, input[type="number"]::-webkit-outer-spin-button { height: auto; }

/**

  • 1. Address appearance set to searchfield in Safari and Chrome.
  • 2. Address box-sizing set to border-box in Safari and Chrome
  • (include -moz to future-proof). */

input[type="search"] { -webkit-appearance: textfield; /* 1 / -moz-box-sizing: content-box; -webkit-box-sizing: content-box; / 2 */ box-sizing: content-box; }

/**

  • Remove inner padding and search cancel button in Safari and Chrome on OS X.
  • Safari (but not Chrome) clips the cancel button when the search input has
  • padding (and textfield appearance). */

input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-cancel-button, input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-decoration { -webkit-appearance: none; }

/**

  • Define consistent border, margin, and padding. */

fieldset { border: 1px solid #c0c0c0; margin: 0 2px; padding: 0.35em 0.625em 0.75em; }

/**

  • 1. Correct color not being inherited in IE 8/9/10/11.
  • 2. Remove padding so people aren't caught out if they zero out fieldsets. */

legend { border: 0; /* 1 / padding: 0; / 2 */ }

/**

  • Remove default vertical scrollbar in IE 8/9/10/11. */

textarea { overflow: auto; }

/**

  • Don't inherit the font-weight (applied by a rule above).
  • NOTE: the default cannot safely be changed in Chrome and Safari on OS X. */

optgroup { font-weight: bold; }

/* Tables ========================================================================== */

/**

  • Remove most spacing between table cells. */

table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; }

td, th { padding: 0; }

/* Lists ========================================================================== */

/**

  • Remove default list styles, margins and padding. */

ol, ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }

This is the Html document:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <title>Best City Guide</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href=" css/style.css"> </head> <body> <header class="main-header"> <h1 class="name"><a href="index.html">Best City Guide</a></h1> <ul class="main-nav"> <li><a href="#">ice cream</a></li> <li><a href="#">donuts</a></li> <li><a href="#">tea</a></li> <li><a href="#">coffee</a></li> </ul> </header>

<h2>Welcome!</h2>
<p>Everything in this city is worth waiting in line for.</p>
<p>Cupcake ipsum dolor sit. Amet chocolate cake gummies jelly beans candy bonbon brownie candy. Gingerbread powder muffin. Icing cotton candy. Croissant icing pie ice cream brownie I love cheesecake cookie. Pastry chocolate pastry jelly croissant.</p>
<p>Cake sesame snaps sweet tart candy canes tiramisu I love oat cake chocolate bar. Jelly beans pastry brownie sugar plum pastry bear claw tiramisu tootsie roll. Tootsie roll wafer I love chocolate donuts.</p>

<h2>Great food</h2>
<p>Croissant macaroon pie brownie. Cookie marshmallow liquorice gingerbread caramels toffee I love chocolate. Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum. Marzipan toffee drag&#233;e chocolate bar candy toffee pudding I love. Gummi bears pie gingerbread lollipop.</p>

<footer class="main-footer">
    <p>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City Ever.</p>
</footer>

</body> </html>

8 Answers

Jared Armes
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Jared Armes
Courses Plus Student 6,391 Points

All of the above didn't work for me. However, renaming the "normalize.css" file to anything other than "normalize" fixed the issue for me. Might be because the browser caches that filename and overrides it, perhaps? Either way, I named it to "cssfix.css" and also the filename in the link tag in the HTML document. This fixed the issue.

Perhaps avoid using the "normalize" as a filename.

Matt Boylan
Matt Boylan
3,355 Points

Try giving the browser a hard refresh (Ctrl+f5), that fixed the issue for me.

Marissa Richardson
Marissa Richardson
47,542 Points

I don't really see anything wrong with the code. There's an extra space before 'css/style.css', but otherwise, I don't see why your code shouldn't work. Did you get the correct file path? If you're developing locally, you may have a different file path than the link tags shown in the video. You would just have to change the path so the browser can find your file.

If all else fails, try 'list-style-type: none;'. If you still have bullets on your list, I think this style should get rid of them. However, just check to see if the file path is correct first.

Manuel Alejandro Matus de Quevedo
Manuel Alejandro Matus de Quevedo
Courses Plus Student 6,407 Points

I tried that out using Sublime Text 3 and Brackets, and for some reason it's only being applied directly to the style.css file but not in the normalize.css file... that's weird though.

Marissa Richardson
Marissa Richardson
47,542 Points

You don't need to include the style in both the style.css and normalize.css. You only need it in one of those files, and then you must link the stylesheets to your index.html (so the styles apply to your html).

patric Iskevi
patric Iskevi
3,663 Points

I have the exact same problem. When modifying the normalize.css nothing happens, even tried to rename the file. But when modifying the style.css it works.

I have the right filepath so its very strange.

Manuel Alejandro Matus de Quevedo
PLUS
Manuel Alejandro Matus de Quevedo
Courses Plus Student 6,407 Points

Yeap, I tried that, whenever I place the code into the normalize.css file no change it's being taken, but once I erase it from that file and paste it on the style.css file, it does work, I don't know why, if in the CSS Layout Basics video it's being written directly on the normalize.css file.

Marissa Richardson
Marissa Richardson
47,542 Points

Oh, okay. I would check for typos and double check the file path. Since it's working with your style.css, I wouldn't worry about it right now. Just look back over it when your done with your project. Validation is also at the end of some of these courses. So when you get there, test to see if your CSS is valid in your normalize.css and also check if your HTML is valid.

I had this same problem using

ol, ul {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
}

But switching to 'list-style-type: none;' fixed this problem for me.

James N
James N
17,864 Points

Just in case... Make sure that you spelled your <link> element correctly, i didn't do that! :(