Freecodecamp: [beta] possibly a change in instruction is needed for challenge

Created on 26 Feb 2017 · 4Comments · Source: freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp

http://beta.freecodecamp.com/en/challenges/applied-visual-design/create-visual-balance-using-the-textalign-property
Applied Visual Design: Create Visual Balance Using the Text-align Property

The challenge works fine, its just that the instructions are a bit unclear, the challenge requires the value "justify" but this is a new terminologyand it is not addressed in the instructions, this can be troublesome to new students...

help wanted

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tommygebru

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@tommygebru agreed. This section needs some love and describe what "justify" means in the context of paragraphs. This could include information on centering, left, and right justification. This page might help in crafting a sufficient description of what you can do with text-align.

erictleung on 26 Feb 2017

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erictleung on 26 Feb 2017

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I agree with @tommygebru. However, I also think that the handholding needs to be kept to a minimum and encourage research. With that, MDN already has such a good catalog of information. Could we leverage that in some way? For instance, anytime an element is mentions, simply include a link where it is mentioned to the appropriate page in MDN?

Also, visual aids work well, too.

donniereese on 28 Feb 2017

Hi @tommygebru, @erictleung, and @donniereese,

I agree about the lack of information on justify. I see that @brennemo PR is fixing it.

However, I think that there is one more thing missed in that challenge. The final note says:

When you align the two anchor tags, you will see no difference. This is because text is aligned to the left by default.

But, to be honest you are unable to see any change, even if you use text-align with other values as center, right, start, end...

So, I think that portion of the challenge needs to be changed. If we are unable to give any visual feedback in these anchor tags they need to be changed.

nativedone on 5 Mar 2017

@adetime Good catch! The aligning on the anchor tags should probably removed. As this is a different issue from the one originally reported here, can you open a new issue about this?