*{
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  font-family:"Myriad Pro";
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body{
  margin:0;
}
.rect_1{
  width: 80%;
  height: 5px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 10;
  
}
/************sets image width on mixed color navbar****/
.rect_1 img{
  width: 100%;
}
.rect_2{
  width: 100%;
  border: 0;
    position:absolute;
    top: 5px;
    left: 50;
    right: 0;
}
.rect_3{
  position: absolute;
  height: 5px;
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 20%;
  margin-left: 80%;
  
}
/***targets both the logo and the links on the left***/
#header{
  margin: 10px 0px 0px 30px;
  position: relative;
  align-items: center;
}

.banner img {
  height: 20px;
  width:  40px;
}
/**targets just the links***/
.contain{
  padding-top: 5px;
}

.formheading i{
  margin-top: -30px;
  color: orange;
 
}
/*targets the links container behaviour*/
 nav ul li{
  display: inline-block;
  list-style: none;
  text-align: center;
 }
/**targets the link texts itself**/
 nav ul li a{
  text-decoration: none;
  position: relative;
  color: goldenrod;
  font-size: 15px;
  font-weight:500;
  margin-left: 20px;
  padding: 5px 10px;
 }

 /* creates a dropdown effect on the navigation link*/
 /* nav ul li a:after{
  color: orange;
  content: '';
  width: 100;
  top: -10px;
  height: 3px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  bottom: -30px;
  box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgb(0 0 200 / 0.4);
  border-radius: 2px;
  transition: 0.s;
 } */

 nav ul li a:hover{
  padding: 5px 10px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  color: gold;
 }

/* Current/active navbar link */
.active {
  background-color: yellow;
}

/* Add responsiveness - will automatically display the navbar vertically instead of horizontally on screens less than 500 pixels */
@media screen and (min-width: 57px) {
  .navbar a {
    float: none;
    display: block;
  }
}

/*this styles are gotten or combined from dashboard.css* it can be taken out at any time */
.loginform{
  width: 350px;
  height: 200px;
  align-items: center;
  font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;
  text-align: left;
  top: 110px;
  position: fixed;
  left: 35%;
}

 .loginform input{
  width: 100%;
  margin-bottom: 5px; 
  border: 2px solid #042436;
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 5px 30px;
  font-size: 12px;
  font-weight: 400;
  color: aqua;
  text-align: left;
  background-color: #023737;
  }
  /* targets the place holder texts ****/
  input[type="text"]::placeholder {
    text-align: left;
    margin: -50px;
    color: gainsboro;
    font-size: 12px;
    }
    

/* positions the login button on the inline-axis ****/
input[type="submit"]{
background-color: orangered;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
color: white;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
border: 2px solid palevioletred;
margin: 30px 0px -60px 0px;	
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: 600;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 10px 50px;
border-radius: 10px;
}
/* Style the navigation bar */
.button { 
  text-decoration: none;
  left: 100px;
  top: 15px;
  right: 0px;
  display: flex;
  position: absolute;
  text-align: center;
  }