I think you're styling the div, not the ul. You need to apply the ID to your ul.

you want this:

before you were targeting the element with the id nav but, that element was a div not the unordered list. You need to target the element in question pertaining to the document object model. You could also have left the mark-up the way it was and targeted it like this instead:

However, then all unorder list elements with a parent of nav would be targeted for the style. So if you had multiple instances of the same style within nav that would be the better way to go.

The best thing to do is try to limit your divisions and instead declare classs or id's for the HTML element in question. In the way you had the mark-up previously it appeared as if you had a division when really there was no need. You can apply class's and ids to element tags instead then target as I did.

just some advice

thank you..that makes alot of sense

but I've changed it and still nothing

<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="http:/www.marlonhibbert.com">About Us</a></li>
<li><a href="http:/www.marlonhibbert.com">Tega Jobs</a></li>
<li><a href="http:/www.marlonhibbert.com">Contact</a></li>
</ul>

#nav { list-style-type:none;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline;}

the only thing is the bullets are now gone

display inline needs to be applied to the list elements not the unordered list element. The link styling needs to be applied to the link.

Then I'm assumning you want to change the link on a rollover and that is done with hover like so:

ok thank you....now i get it....the book i was reading didn't really explain that part to well

descendent selectors area very important concept to understand. Almost all the styling you apply should generally be in the form of descendent selectors. otherwise, you may have promblems with the cascade(woss) later. Descendent selectors deal with the specificity in the cascading rule sheet. The more specific you are generally the better off you are.

So if you targeting a paragraph that resides in a container with multiple parents its better to declare all those parents as descendents rather then just one or two.

This:

would be more specific thus less pormblems later then if I targeted the same element like so:

Another thing is understanding HTML in general is very important. Without knowing HTML it is difficult to know what to target. Once you understand fully element tags then its not so difficult.

just some helpfull advice. I didn't get the whole descendent thing when I first began learning either. However, eventually it should click since, it is very important.

I found some training videos that show them programming the code and the effects to be really helpful with this. I'm just starting to grasp the importance specificity.

thanks......what videos