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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Classes in CSS

Arcee Palabrica
Arcee Palabrica
8,100 Points
Posted by Arcee Palabrica
Arcee Palabrica
8,100 Points

Can't seem to figure out where I'm wrong on the Class Attribute

I was following on the tutorial on the class attribution part. I've applied all codes same as what Nick did but why is my "portfolio" text on the nav remained white?

/this is from my indext.html/ <li><a href="index.html" class:"selected">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>

/and this is from my main.css/ nav { background: #599a68; } nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff; } nav a.selected, nav a:hover{ color: #32673f; }

1 Answer

Benjamin Larson
Benjamin Larson
34,055 Points
Benjamin Larson
Benjamin Larson
34,055 Points

I think the problem is in your index.html file where you said class:"selected", it should instead use the assignment operator. It's easy to get tripped up when CSS style sheets use colons and html attributes use the equals sign. 

<a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a>