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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Using Combinators in Selectors

Posted by Joe Morello
Joe Morello
1,734 Points

Bummer! The child combinator is >, make sure the color is set to 'green'.

what is the father of the child? who is the child?

2 Answers

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

since you want to select the a tag nested inside the div, the parent is the div tag, the child is the a tag

you use the child combinator like this:

parent > child { }
Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

Without seeing your code, I can only advise that a parent tag is a tag that is inside another tag in your document. A parent of one element can be a child of another. The html tag is the root tag of all html elements.