(Professor Hatch, if you're reading this, please know that no apologies were necessary. In fact, it was relieving (or extremely disheartening) to know that CSS can still be problematic even when you know it inside out.)
Sarah Parnass and I spoke after class about what could've gone wrong, and she astutely mentioned that it was likely the tool bar wasn't an embedded CSS because it's the same on all of american.edu's various sections.
From what I could gather, this means the code would be located in one of those style sheets rather than in the page's source code.
Yay, I'm excited to be mentioned in this! Like Chris said, I'm betting the code for that navigation bar was in the external CSS. I didn't actually know what terms like "external" and "embedded" meant when referring to CSS until that class, but now I feel semi-comfortable using them. So even if things didn't work out so well, at least class wasn't a waste!
ReplyDeleteChris I'm with you. When dealing with CSS if feel like I'm messing with a central nervous system, and one little dash could off-set the whole program.
ReplyDeleteGood points, Chris. And thanks.
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