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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Basic Attribute Selectors

Posted by Louis Delgado
Louis Delgado
10,182 Points

a [target="title"] { color: darkred; } is this wrong??

I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with my attribute selector what am I doing wrong?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Attribute Selectors</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <p>
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus sed egestas tortor, vel tincidunt dolor.
    </p>
    <a href="#" title="More!">Duis ut velit faucibus</a>
    <p>
        Proin orci arcu, dapibus vel faucibus in, commodo in nunc. <a href="#">Vestibulum erat dolor laoreet</a> nec cursus non, luctus ut elit. In sed congue lectus, id ullamcorper massa. <a href="#" title="More!">View more &raquo;</a>
    </p>
    <form>
        <input type="text" name="email">
        <input type="submit" name="submit">
    </form>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
a [target="title"] {
  color: dark red;
}

4 Answers

mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

I haven't done this particular challenge but are you trying to style the link based on what's contained in the title attribute? If so, you should be using the following:

a[title~="More!"] {
    color: DarkRed;
}

The [attribute~=value] selector is used to select elements with an attribute value containing a specified word.

Louis Delgado
Louis Delgado
10,182 Points

my instructions where as follows:

Create an attribute selector that will target <a> elements with a title attribute. Add a color property with the value darkred.

I didnt think I had to specify a word?

mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

Louis, if that's the case, and you just want to select all links that have a title attribute, you can do the following:

a[title] {
    color: darkred;
}
Louis Delgado
Louis Delgado
10,182 Points

but thats what I thought I had!! ahhhhhh!!! curse you Poseidon!! ... Thanks mike

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

remove the space between the element and the starting bracket and your dark red probably needs to be darkred:

a[target="title"] {
  color: darkred;
}
Louis Delgado
Louis Delgado
10,182 Points
Louis Delgado
Louis Delgado
10,182 Points

a[target="title"] { color: darkred; }

it didn't accept it

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

see mikes answer for why your target="title" is incorrect

Louis Delgado
Louis Delgado
10,182 Points
Louis Delgado
Louis Delgado
10,182 Points

Thanks for everyone's help, greatly appreciated!