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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Understanding Values and Units Color Values

Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points
Posted by Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points

Changing the color for a single element

Hi everyone I need a little help here. I want to change the color of the main-logo only, adding some CSS. I thought to add a span tag and a class but I don't how to position them in my HTML . Plus I'd want all the list items to be on the same line.

        <header class="main-header">
            <ul class="main-nav">
              <li class="main-logo"><h1><a href="#">Logo</a></h1></li>
                <li><a href="#">HOMES</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">FOR SALE</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">RENTALS</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">CONTACTS</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">FOLLOW US</a></li>

      </ul>
     </header>

5 Answers

Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points

Hi!

  1. What exactly do you mean by "I want to change the color of the main-logo only"? Do you mean the color of text inside the list element with assigned main-logo class? If so, then do this in your CSS:
li.main-logo a {
    color: red; /* change this to a HEX value, another colorcode or an rgba value of your choice */
}

To solve the issue with having the entire list in the same line, you need to know that wrapping some text into h1 tokens, will always make the text behave like a block element. And therefore occupy the entire page width to the left and right of its content.

If you want it to stay inline and still use h1 in any of your list items, then add this in your CSS:

ul.main-nav li h1 {
    display: inline;
}

To make all of your list items to appear horizontally add this to your CSS

ul.main-nav li {
    display: inline-block;
}

Hope this helped.

Saskia

Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points
Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points

Thanks for your answer.I just wanted to change the main-logo li item and I did forget to add li before main-logo, so the first solution worked fine. Thanks again,cheers.

Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points
Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points

I also wanted to create a pipe separator between all the list items except the main-logo. Do you think I have to use a pseudo class?

Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points
Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points

Yes, you could.

If the pipe seperator should only be visible BETWEEN two list items, however NOT between li.main-logo and the second list item, add the following to your CSS:

.main-nav li:after {
  content: "|";
}

.main-nav li.main-logo:after,
.main-nav li.lastli:after {
  content: "";
}

If you don't want the pipe to appear after the last list item, then add class="lastli" to it.

Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points
Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points

Thanks you very much indeed that worked. But now I have got another problem I've been struggling with. I want to add a pipe line between the first five list items (except the main logo)and leave the others which I gave the class "social-icon" without. How would you do that? 

<header class="main-header">
        <ul class="main-nav">
            <li class="main-logo"><h1><a href="#">Logo</a></h1></li> <!da qui in poi ho sostituito-->-->
                         <li><a href="#">HOMES</a></li>
                     <li><a href="#">FOR SALE</a></li>
                 <li><a href="#">RENTALS</a></li>
             <li><a href="#">CONTACTS</a></li>
                         <li><a href="#">FOLLOW US</a></li>
                         <li><a href="http://facebook.com/"><img src="webicons/facebook.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a></li>
                         <li><a href="http://twitter.com/"><img src="webicons/twitter1.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a></li>
                         <li><a href="http://rss.org"><img src="webicons/rss.png" alt="Rss Logo" class="social-icon"></a></li>
               </ul>
     </header>
Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points
Filippo D'Arrigo
Filippo D'Arrigo
5,285 Points

sorry I messed up with the indentation

Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points
Saskia Lund
Saskia Lund
5,673 Points

Something like this maybe?

.main-nav li:after {
    content: ' | ';
}
.main-nav li.main-logo:after,
.main-nav li.social-icon:after {
    content: ' ';
}

I think I already answered this in my last post xD