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CSS CSS Selectors Selectors - Beyond the Basics Attribute Selectors

Hamza Saleemi
Hamza Saleemi
4,257 Points
Posted by Hamza Saleemi
Hamza Saleemi
4,257 Points

Can't select the a element

I copied the code from the video but I can't seem to select the a element.

My CSS

a[target='_blank'] {
    color:#39add1;
    text-decoration:none;
    border-bottom: 1px dotted;
  }

My HTML

 <a href="#" target="_blank">Forgot your password?</a>

Edit: I played around with it a bit and figured out the problem was that I used a ] instead of an } to close to css rule above which caused the error.

1 Answer

Joseph Davidson
Joseph Davidson
8,667 Points

The quotation marks in you CSS are single marks while the ones in your HTML are double.

Try it like this and you should be fine.

a[target="_blank"] {
  color: #39add1;
  text-decoration: none;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted;
}