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Posted by Chris Stauffer
Chris Stauffer
Courses Plus Student 786 Points

Challenge task 4 of 4 in Advanced Nesting

On challenge 4 of 4 it asks you to "add an exception for a tags that are are in the div with a class of '.footer': those links should be purple. Use the post-selector ampersand to achieve this."

I'm clueless. I'm not sure how to do this without just adding: 

.footer a { color: purple; }

My code for the first 3 challenges:

p {
  a {
    color: red;
  }
  > a {
    color: blue;
    &:hover {
      opacity: 0.5;
    }
  }
}

2 Answers

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points
Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

Hi Chris, take a look at this thread.

Chris Stauffer
Chris Stauffer
Courses Plus Student 786 Points

I searched the forum for "Advanced Nesting" woth no luck, whoops. Thanks for the link.

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points
Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

Things to tend to get buried here rather quickly, I wonder if Treehouse could devise a way to link threads to a certain video/challenge.

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Easiest way to search is to Google the question with team treehouse in the search too.

Adam Sackfield
PLUS
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points
Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

I would watch the video again but im sure its something like 

div.footer a & { color: purple; }
Chris Stauffer
Chris Stauffer
Courses Plus Student 786 Points

I did watch the video again! I will see if this is accepted and try to wrap my head around it, thanks man.

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Chris Stauffer let me know if it works

Chris Stauffer
Chris Stauffer
Courses Plus Student 786 Points

Didn't work, the validator was looking for something like this:

p {
    a {
        color: red;
        div.footer & {
            color: purple
        }
    }
}