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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Adding a Style to several Elements using Class

Posted by Benoit Tordeurs
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Benoit Tordeurs
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,400 Points

a href .social-links { padding: 15px; margin: 10px; } ...bummer, you need to set padding 15px to the class

I do not understand, why he would take the padding???

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>List Example</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <a href="#"class="social-links">Follow me on Twitter!</a>
    <a href="#"class="social-links">Send me an Email!</a>  

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
a href.social-links { padding= 15px; margin= 10px;}

2 Answers

Benoit Tordeurs
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Benoit Tordeurs
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,400 Points

thank you very much!

Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points
Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points

You should probably review the process of creating css rules, along with the terms - html elements and attributes (including class).

Your rule:

a href.social-links { 
  padding= 15px; margin= 10px;
}

is attempting to set the padding and margin to 'href' elements (which is an attribute not an element) with the class of social-links and is also a descendant of an anchor element 'a'.

Based on your html and the challenge all you really need to specify is the class.