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Alan Shahry
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 23,184 PointsBasic Structural Pseudo-Classes
In this drill I have a <ul> with <li>first child of ul</li> and I am asked to set the background color for the <li> to black and the color to white. My code in css is: li: first child of ul { background-color: black; color: white; }
but it keep saying that I still need to set the background color to black. What do you think is the problem?
3 Answers
Brandan Booth
8,846 Pointsthis should work i just tried it
li:first-child { color:white; background-color:black; }
Brandan Booth
8,846 Pointsthis should help you out
color:white; background:black;
Alan Shahry
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 23,184 PointsThanks for the quick reply. It did not work :-( I think there must be something wrong with the drill itself.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsMaybe I'm misunderstanding what you posted but li: first child of ul is not a valid selector. li:first-child however is valid.
Check out the section on structural pseudo-class in tutorial to learn more about the syntax of first-child.
Alan Shahry
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 23,184 PointsAlan Shahry
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 23,184 PointsYES!!! Thank you :-)