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HTML & CSS Navigation drop down menu stuck to the left of links

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Josh47391

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Trying to make a drop down on a nav like this:

kdvC8.png



Here's the HTML and CSS - it just stays to the left of the nav links

HTML: 
<header>
        <img src="logo.png" alt="" class="logo">
        <nav class="right">
            <ul class="nav-links">
                <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Food</a></li>
                  <ul>
                     *4 <li> items*
                  </ul>
                <li><a href="#">Housing</a></li>
                   <ul>
                     *4 <li> items*
                   </ul>
                <li><a href="#">Cleaning</a></li>
                   <ul>
                     *4 <li> items*
                   </ul>
                <li><a href="#">Decor</a></li>
                   <ul>
                     *4 <li> items*
                   </ul>
            </ul>
        </nav>
 </header>


CSS: 
header, ul, a{
    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;
    align-items: center;
    background-color: #6B8E23;
    list-style: none;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: white;
    padding-right: 50px;
    font-weight: 600;
}


header{
    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;
    align-items: center;
}


.right a{
    padding: 0 20px 0 20px;
    border-right: 2px solid white;
    font-size: large;
}

.right > a:last-of-type{
    border-right: none;
}

.nav.links a:hover{
    background-color: #000;
}

.nav-links ul {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
}

.nav-links:hover > ul{
    display: block;
    border: none;
}

Here’s what it’s doing:

ps1mb.png


Whenever I hover over the links (housing, cleaning etc), the drop-down sticks to the left of the navigation links, and doesn't actually "drop down" below the original headings. How can this be fixed?
 
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Josh, I'm giving you a start. Go read up on the various subjects I introduce and try to finish things.
In your HTML I closed your </li> in the sub-menu and moved the end tags that encompass the dropdowns I added the headings to the html - look at that.
In the CSS I added something you should put in all css - the wildcard padding/margin/box-sizing section.

CSS
Code: 
*{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    box-sizing: content-box;
}
header, ul{
    display: flex;
    justify-content: space-between;
    align-items: center;
    background-color: #6B8E23;
    padding-right: 50px;
    font-weight: 600;
}
li{
    padding: 20px 20px;
    border-right: 2px solid white;
    font-size: large;
    list-style: none;
    background-color: #000;
}
li:last-of-type{
    border-right: none;
}
li:hover{
    cursor: pointer;
    background-color: red;
}
a{
    color:white;
    text-decoration: none;
}
li ul li{
    background-color: pink;
}
li ul {
    display: none;
    position: absolute;
    top:60px;
    background-color: pink;
}
li:hover ul{
    display: block;
}


HTML
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-us">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
<title>website</title>
</head>

<body>
<header>
    <img src="logo.png" alt="MISSING" class="logo">
    <nav class="right">
        <ul class="nav-links">
            <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Food</a>
              <ul>
                 <li> items
              </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#">Housing</a>
               <ul>
                  <li> items</li>
               </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#">Cleaning</a>
               <ul>
                 <li> items</li>
               </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#">Decor</a>
               <ul>
                  <li> items</li>
                  <li> items</li>
                  <li> items</li>
                  <li> items</li>
               </ul>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </nav>
</header>
</body>
</html>
 
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In line 18 of the above HTML, the <li> is not being closed. It's not a problem, browsers accept it and the W3C Online validator does not consider it an error. I find that strange but this is HTML for you. Nonetheless it is wrong and should be corrected - nowhere it says that you may leave this tag unterminated.
 
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