that lets you indent. Now here’s where the major learning came in (I learn best by actually applying things I’ve learned to something I’m working on, rather than knowing it theoretically)….I read in the tutorial that the value of the margin-left property consists of a number and a unit (pixels, centimeters, inches, what have you). So I made a class “.tab” and put a value in my CSS sheet (thank you, Jamie, for showing me how to read the source code for CSS sheets):
(Apologies; I can’t get the previous statement to format (indent) the way I want. I need a CSS sheet for this post!!)
and called the class in my html
Paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph<br />
paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph<br />
paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph paragraph.
but it didn’t work!! I was so disappointed! I put other properties in my .tab class that did work, like colors, so I knew my .tab class and calling the class were okay; the problem was somewhere in my margin-left statement. Here was the problem (which took me a while to figure out): you cannot leave a space between the number and unit values in the value statement. It must read 60px, NOT 60 px.
I know we haven’t done the CSS portion of the course yet, but all you CSS newbies, don’t be frustrated by leaving a space and having your properties not be applied!! You can bet I’ll never make that mistake again 🙂 — that’s what I mean by my learning better when I actually have a problem to solve.
I thought the part of our assignment where we tag photographs of the world around us was fun, and an interesting way to look at HTML. It was especially interesting to me because I tend to see things very literally and don’t consider myself too creative, so the assignment took me out of my “comfort zone” and helped me to see HTML in a more creative light.
Looking forward to more fun learning in week 3! I really do love learning new things…