Surely a bug , font not degrading to Monospace

HTML-CSS
1

Tell us what’s happening:

The font is not degrading to monospace, I have already searched forum for possible errors but everything seems to be fine , still it’s not passing the test no 2. -> “Your h2 element should degrade to the font monospace when Lobster is not available.”

Your code so far


<!-- 
  <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
-->
<style>
  .red-text {
    color: red;
  }

  h2 {
    
    font-family : Lobster , monospace ;
  }

  p {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: monospace;
  }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
  <p class="red-text">Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>
  
  <a href="#"><img src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>
  
  <div>
    <p>Things cats love:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>cat nip</li>
      <li>laser pointers</li>
      <li>lasagna</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
    <ol>
      <li>flea treatment</li>
      <li>thunder</li>
      <li>other cats</li>
    </ol>
  </div>
  
  <form action="/submit-cat-photo">
    <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>
    <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality" checked> Loving</label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label><br>
    <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
  </form>
</main>

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.62 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/responsive-web-design/basic-css/specify-how-fonts-should-degrade/

2

Hi @convex,

It’s not bug, it’s mistake in writing from you.

You write:

h2 {
    
    font-family : Lobster , monospace ;
  }

What you should write:

h2 {
    
    font-family : 'Lobster' , monospace ;
  }

also there is another problem in comment:

You write:

<!-- 
  <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
-->

What you should write:

<!--<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">-->

for some reason you should do the comment what i write to you now.

Hope this help you, good luck my friend :slight_smile:

Regards,
Ali Mosaad

3

@ali-admin , I already tried that . It’s not working. Still getting the same result.

4

Hi @convex,

I edit my post now try the hint i wrote it in comment, it should work.

If you stuck, here is the solution:

<!--<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">-->
<style>
  .red-text {
    color: red;
  }

  h2 {
    font-family: 'Lobster', monospace;
  }

  p {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: monospace;
  }
</style>

Regards,
Ali Mosaad

6

@ali-admin I tried it. It’s still failing the test. Here is the code:

<!--<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
-->
<style>
  .red-text {
    color: red;
  }

  h2 {
    font-family: 'Lobster' , monospace ;
  }

  p {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: monospace;
  }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
  <p class="red-text">Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>
  
  <a href="#"><img src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>
  
  <div>
    <p>Things cats love:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>cat nip</li>
      <li>laser pointers</li>
      <li>lasagna</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
    <ol>
      <li>flea treatment</li>
      <li>thunder</li>
      <li>other cats</li>
    </ol>
  </div>
  
  <form action="/submit-cat-photo">
    <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>
    <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality" checked> Loving</label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label><br>
    <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
  </form>
</main>
  .red-text {
    color: red;
  }

  h2 {
    font-family: 'Lobster' , monospace ;
  }

  p {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: monospace;
  }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
  <p class="red-text">Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>
  
  <a href="#"><img src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>
  
  <div>
    <p>Things cats love:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>cat nip</li>
      <li>laser pointers</li>
      <li>lasagna</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
    <ol>
      <li>flea treatment</li>
      <li>thunder</li>
      <li>other cats</li>
    </ol>
  </div>
  
  <form action="/submit-cat-photo">
    <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>
    <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality" checked> Loving</label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label><br>
    <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
  </form>
</main>
7

Hi @convex,

Your code is right, i don’t know why this code didn’t work in your browser?

Here is my working code all, try to remove your code and copy my code to your solution:

<!--<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">-->
<style>
 .red-text {
   color: red;
 }

 h2 {
   font-family: 'Lobster', monospace;
 }

 p {
   font-size: 16px;
   font-family: monospace;
 }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
 <p class="red-text">Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>
 
 <a href="#"><img src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>
 
 <div>
   <p>Things cats love:</p>
   <ul>
     <li>cat nip</li>
     <li>laser pointers</li>
     <li>lasagna</li>
   </ul>
   <p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
   <ol>
     <li>flea treatment</li>
     <li>thunder</li>
     <li>other cats</li>
   </ol>
 </div>
 
 <form action="/submit-cat-photo">
   <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>
   <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>
   <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality" checked> Loving</label>
   <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
   <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label><br>
   <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
   <button type="submit">Submit</button>
 </form>
</main>

Hope this help you to solve example, good luck my friend
The browser i use is: Chrome

Regards,
Ali Mosaad

8

@ali-admin Yeah I just copy pasted your code and it worker. Now I wonder why ? There seems to be no difference.

9

@convex I don’t know why, but, that’s good because it work now and you solve example :wink:

Good luck my friend and have a happy coding :+1:

Regards,
Ali Mosaad

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10

Yeah. Anyways I could solve the challenge. Thanks @ali-admin. I was stuck for too long.

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11

@ali-admin I noticed something interesting. Difference between your(accepted) and mine(unaccepted) code is this:
Your code :

font-family: 'Lobster',monospace ;

My code:

font-family: 'Lobster' ,monospace ;

My code has an extra ‘space’ character after ‘Lobster’ . Try putting this extra space and you’ll fail the test most probably. In my opinion both codes are correct though.

12 
@convex,
remove comment tag from link and add comment near h2 selector.check out this solution;

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
  .red-text {
    color: red;
  }

  h2 {
    font-family: Lobster,monospace; 
  }
<!--lobster-->
  p {
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: monospace;
  }
</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>
<main>
  <p class="red-text">Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>
  
  <a href="#"><img src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>
  
  <div>
    <p>Things cats love:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>cat nip</li>
      <li>laser pointers</li>
      <li>lasagna</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>
    <ol>
      <li>flea treatment</li>
      <li>thunder</li>
      <li>other cats</li>
    </ol>
  </div>
  
  <form action="/submit-cat-photo">
    <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>
    <label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality" checked> Loving</label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>
    <label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label><br>
    <input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
  </form>
</main>