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CSS CSS Selectors Advanced Selectors Pseudo-Elements Challenge

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Posted by Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

challenge 4 out of 4 psuedo elements

Finally, create a new rule that will insert a pseudo-element after an a element. As the content value, define a CSS function that will insert an href attribute's value as content.

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.progbar::after {
  display: block;
  width: 50%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: inherit;
    background-color: #5ece7f; 
  content:"";
}

.progbar::before {
  content:"";
    display: block;
    width: 24px;
    height: 24px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    left: 49%;
    top: -9px;
    background-color: #7dd898; 
}

.progbar {
  height: 6px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  background: #d6d7d9;
  position: relative;
  margin-bottom: 3.875em; 
}

a::after {
    content: href(); 
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Selectors</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="progbar"></div> 
    <a href="http://teamtreehouse.com">Check out the URL: </a>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Joel Bardsley
Joel Bardsley
31,249 Points
Joel Bardsley
Joel Bardsley
31,249 Points

Hi spooky ghost, the href is an attribute (or 'attr') of an anchor tag, so an expression like this should work:

a::after {
  content: attr(href);
}

Hope that helps.