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Welcome to Challenge 6 of the Github and Website Workshop - creating a fixed navigation bar!

The goal of this challenge is to creating a fixed navigation bar (follows you as you scroll) with the title of your site and links



HTML
We want all the HTML code for this component to be inside a tag which is nested inside

There are two parts of this HTML:

1. the header title

2. links

Therefore, we want to wrap each of these parts in separate HTML tags

HTML challenge 1

 * For the header title, let’s create a with the id called header-title.
 * What would you expect when you click on a header? (It’s a good idea to make the header title a link to index.html)

Solution code

We want to make the navigation part - luckily there's a tag! We should place the links in a (in the tag, after the header title div)

Often when we put links in a navigation bar, we'll make an unordered list to hold the links then style the list to look the way we want.

HTML challenge 2

 * Put links to some section of your website in a tag and organize the links hierarchically using an unordered list.
 * We suggest the following pages, but feel free to come up your own ideas: About, Portfolio, Resume
 * The urls can be empty strings for now, but see if you can set up "Resume" to link to your resume! (hint: put it in the same folder as index.html)

Solution code

CSS
If you refresh index.html, you will notice that it looks hella basic. Let’s fix this with some CSS!

CSS challenge
Get to be a fixed bar and look nice.

Add the following styles to the header element:
 * background-color
 * full width
 * fixed height (whatever you like)
 * z-index
 * We want the bar to overlap the rest of the content
 * by default HTML elements have a z-index of 1
 * z-index: 2  gives our header priority over default elements
 * position: fixed
 * This makes the header not move when we scroll the rest of the page - it will always be stuck at the top of the page

Solution code

The next task is to get  and on the same line.
 * This is accomplished using “display: inline-block” - by default, HTML elements have “display: block” meaning there are line breaks between elements
 * We also want  to “float” to the left and to “float” to the right on the same line

Challenge: try adding more space around the text in in the div#header-title and nav
 * Hint: use the padding property

If you refresh index.html, you will notice that the links are still formatted using bullets. With CSS we can get rid of that styling!
 * We only want to remove default styling for unordered lists under and not elsewhere
 * We can specify this by accessing only  and  for a nav parent

Add the following styles:

Challenge: add spacing between each link or 
 * Hint: use the margin property

Challenge: create a style for the links
 * Hint: use “nav a:link”, “nav a:visited”, and “nav a:hover”
 * Tip: setting “text-decoration: none” gets rid of the underline that shows up by default on a link

Save the changes and reload index.html. When you’re satisfied, commit and push the changes.

Next: Challenge 7