Step 52 Pseudo Selectors

HTML-CSS
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When I remove the max and min width of 4rem, they don’t fill up the whole screen… I thought the viewport was the page. So, why don’t they fill up the whole page because their width is set to 100vw?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Balance Sheet</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <main>
      <section>
        <h1>
          <span class="flex">
            <span>AcmeWidgetCorp</span>
            <span>Balance Sheet</span>
          </span>
        </h1>
        <div id="years" aria-hidden="true">
          <span class="year">2019</span>
          <span class="year">2020</span>
          <span class="year">2021</span>
        </div>
        <div class="table-wrap">
          <table>
            <caption>Assets</caption>
            <thead>
              <tr>
                <td></td>
                <th><span class="sr-only year">2019</span></th>
                <th><span class="sr-only year">2020</span></th>
                <th class="current"><span class="sr-only year">2021</span></th>
              </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <tr class="data">
                <th>Cash <span class="description">This is the cash we currently have on hand.</span></th>
                <td>$25</td>
                <td>$30</td>
                <td class="current">$28</td>
              </tr>
              <tr class="data">
                <th>Checking <span class="description">Our primary transactional account.</span></th>
                <td>$54</td>
                <td>$56</td>
                <td class="current">$53</td>
              </tr>
              <tr class="data">
                <th>Savings <span class="description">Funds set aside for emergencies.</span></th>
                <td>$500</td>
                <td>$650</td>
                <td class="current">$728</td>
              </tr>
              <tr class="total">
                <th>Total <span class="sr-only">Assets</span></th>
                <td>$579</td>
                <td>$736</td>
                <td class="current">$809</td>
              </tr>
            </tbody>
          </table>
          <table>
            <caption>Liabilities</caption>
            <thead>
              <tr>
              <td></td>
              <th><span class="sr-only">2019</span></th>
              <th><span class="sr-only">2020</span></th>
              <th><span class="sr-only">2021</span></th>
              </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <tr class="data">
                <th>Loans <span class="description">The outstanding balance on our startup loan.</span></th>
                <td>$500</td>
                <td>$250</td>
                <td class="current">$0</td>
              </tr>
              <tr class="data">
                <th>Expenses <span class="description">Annual anticipated expenses, such as payroll.</span></th>
                <td>$200</td>
                <td>$300</td>
                <td class="current">$400</td>
              </tr>
              <tr class="data">
                <th>Credit <span class="description">The outstanding balance on our credit card.</span></th>
                <td>$50</td>
                <td>$50</td>
                <td class="current">$75</td>
              </tr>
              <tr class="total">
                <th>Total <span class="sr-only">Liabilities</span></th>
                <td>$750</td>
                <td>$600</td>
                <td class="current">$475</td>
              </tr>
            </tbody>
          </table>
          <table>
            <caption>Net Worth</caption>
            <thead>
              <tr>
              <td></td>
              <th><span class="sr-only">2019</span></th>
              <th><span class="sr-only">2020</span></th>
              <th><span class="sr-only">2021</span></th>
              </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <tr class="total">
                <th>Total <span class="sr-only">Net Worth</span></th>
                <td>$-171</td>
                <td>$136</td>
                <td class="current">$334</td>
              </tr>
            </tbody>
          </table>
        </div>
      </section>
    </main>
  </body>
</html>

``
span[class~="sr-only"] {
  border: 0 !important;
  clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px) !important;
  clip-path: inset(50%) !important;
  -webkit-clip-path: inset(50%) !important;
  height: 1px !important;
  width: 1px !important;
  position: absolute !important;
  overflow: hidden !important;
  white-space: nowrap !important;
  padding: 0 !important;
  margin: -1px !important;
}

html {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  font-family: sans-serif;
  color: #0a0a23;
}

h1 {
  max-width: 37.25rem;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 1.5rem 1.25rem;
}

h1 .flex {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column-reverse;
  gap: 1rem;
}

h1 .flex span:first-of-type {
  font-size: 0.7em;
}

h1 .flex span:last-of-type {
  font-size: 1.2em;
}

section {
  max-width: 40rem;
  margin: 0 auto;
  border: 2px solid #d0d0d5;
}

#years {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: flex-end;
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
  background: #0a0a23;
  color: #fff;
  z-index: 999;
  padding: 0.5rem calc(1.25rem + 2px) 0.5rem 0;
  margin: 0 -2px;
}

#years span[class] {
  font-weight: bold;
  width: 4.5rem;
  text-align: right;
}

.table-wrap {
  padding: 0 0.75rem 1.5rem 0.75rem;
}

span {
  font-weight: normal;
}

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  border: 0;
  width: 100%;
  position: relative;
  margin-top: 3rem;
}

table caption {
  color: #356eaf;
  font-size: 1.3em;
  font-weight: normal;
  position: absolute;
  top: -2.25rem;
  left: 0.5rem;
}

tbody td {
  width: 100vw;
  max-width: 4rem;
  min-width: 4rem;
  background: red; /*test purposes*/
}
1 Like
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Can you post a link to the area/step you are trying this on?

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Learn More About CSS Pseudo Selectors By Building A Balance Sheet: Step 52 | freeCodeCamp.org

4

The answer to your question is in the exercise text which says:

Give … a width to fill the viewport, with a minimum and maximum of 4rem . This approach ensures that the width is fixed, whereas setting width specifically would allow the elements to shrink to the container (because we are using flexbox).

So the viewport is not the page here as this specific element is contained within other elements which have viewports that are not 100%.
(so just because an element says it wants 100vw doesn’t mean it will get it as that is determined by the size of its container – or its parents/ancestors who may have a smaller size)

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I just tested it out, and when the parent container has a width of 50% 100vw still takes up 100% of the page viewport…

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But you aren’t using display: flex.

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From what I can tell, because you’re specifically overriding the width set up in the parent container, the browser just uses your width setting.
Maybe the reason you want to keep track of min and max width though is because if you end up looking at a very small screen, you don’t want your stuff to shrink too much (based on a percentage of the viewport).
And in reverse, if your looking at your page on a much larger screen, you don’t want the text to be stretched out too much (or the columns to be stretched out sideways too much)

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I tried what they said, and when I add display: flex; it fitted to the container. This must mean that it does something like display: flow-root; or overflow: hidden; in the fact that it establishes a new box formatting context. I assume that it creates that as a new “viewport”

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