Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 25

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Help I do not understand what it means to set margin-left and margin-right to auto

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<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Cafe Menu</title>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="menu">
      <main>
        <h1>CAMPER CAFE</h1>
        <p>Est. 2020</p>
        <section>
          <h2>Coffee</h2>
        </section>
      </main>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
body {
  /*
  background-color: burlywood;
  */
}

h1, h2, p {
  text-align: center;
}


/* User Editable Region */

#menu {
  width: 80%;
  background-color: burlywood;
 margin-left: auto
margin-right: auto }

/* User Editable Region */

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Challenge Information:

Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 25

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You see by setting any values of margin-left and margin-right to auto , it will attempt to center the element on the page. Margins are used to create extra space around an element.

Using shorthand, this is one way to center an element on a page.

margin: 0 auto

This sets the top and bottom margins to zero while setting the right and left margins to automatic.

However margin-top and margin-bottom being automatic lead it to defaulting to acting as if the margins were set to zero.

You can read more about it here. margin - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN

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Hi there and welcome to our community!

Further to @a2937’s response, you need to include a semi-colon after each property/value pair in your CSS rulesets.

Your code is failing this step because you are missing a semi-colon after each of the rules which you have added.

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Here you tried Well , But see how you completed your code.

See here what are you missing, improve it and learn.

Hope you understand!!

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