Code Challenge: Additional Pseudo Classes

Any way to delete a forum topic?

Possibly, but I wouldn't recommend it. Far better to archive it so if anyone else makes a similar mistake they can find the answer in the forum.

Marshall Hendrickson

Any way to delete a forum topic?

Anyone with moderator or staff below their name has the power to delete a forum topic. You can summon one to such a thread by @ tagging their name.

Thomas MacFarlane -

Possibly, but I wouldn't recommend it. Far better to archive it so if anyone else makes a similar mistake they can find the answer in the forum.

I concur.

well, I tried :target[id*="#"]{ background-color: tomato;} and got bupkis.

Benjamin, I suggest you re-watch the video and copy what Guil does.

The question is awkwardly phrased... Since all the IDs have the same name, you can just input:

:target { background-color:tomato }

As an aside... I really love Treehouse, your UX is definitely top-notch. However, when trouble shooting code, it is a very slow process. I hope there will be a better way (perhaps like codeacademy) where you can see the answer if you're really stuck.

Cindy Lam where you can see the answer if you're really stuck.

I don't think giving away the answer does the learner any favors. Programming is similar to math if you get the answer to the problem and don't understand why that answer is correct then you will be confused later on.

Here's a great article about this struggle-based approach Teaching Programming to the Highly Motivated Beginner

In general my view is that a large part of liking coding is enjoying spending the better part of a day hunting for a misplaced semicolon.

I've learned a lot of valuable information from doing something wrong and learning how to fix it. Parsing directions, spotting errors in the instructions as well as typos in your own code are all valuable real-world skills that I use every day, as is puzzling out how something is currently setup when you have no documentation telling you how things are supposed to work.

Thanks for the response James. I never thought anyone would read it, so you can imagine my surprise at seeing a well-thought out and articulated response.

I agree with you but you walk a fine line when using struggle-based approach. For example, I'm learning Chinese right now. I always remember the words where I have to physically use a dictionary to find.However, having an online dictionary is still useful. Similarly, most people prefer googling to going to my library to find information. It's a trade off between time and knowledge.

For problem solving, this can be a worthwhile technique, especially if the problems are similar to what we would want to do in real life ( I.E. - make the title stand out more vs change the title to font size 36 pt).

All in all, I would still love to see some quick and easy to find answers. (oh god... that sounds terrible)

All in all, I would still love to see some quick and easy to find answers.

That's what syntax references are for.

• HTML Dog
• Sitepoint Reference
• devdocs.io

Of course in the real world not all questions have quick and easy answers. If programming were easy Front End Devs wouldn't get paid so well

Of course there's a lot of you can do to help yourself out.

• Syntax highlighting in your text editor
• CSS Lint
• Creating a reduced test case
• Rubber duck debugging