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Posted by Gil Bento
Gil Bento
4,704 Points

Code Challenge: adjacent sibling combinator doesn't work

Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. The challenge says Use the Adjacent Sibling Combinator to select the p elements that immediately follow the h2. Set their background to lightblue.

I wrote the following: 

h2 + p { background-color: #BDD4DE;}

and get this "Bummer" message:

Bummer! The Adjacent Combinator is +, try double checking your css selectors.

In addition to that, the page viewer to the right shows that only one of the paragraphs after the h2 heading were affected by the code (ie: changed to light-blue background).

Also, needless to say, I am writing this code in the style.css tab, not the index.html tab. Am I missing something or could this be a bug. I'm using Firefox but I also tried it in IE and still not working.

Thanks!

1 Answer

Birk Dinges
Birk Dinges
10,551 Points

Hi Gil,

sounds like you're having the same problem I had with that code challenge. Try setting the background color to "lightblue" instead of using the hex-value.

see https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/stuck-in-css-foundations-code-challenge

Gil Bento
Gil Bento
4,704 Points

Thanks Birk! That was exactly the problem! I had tried to use the text format for the color but had written 'light-blue' (with a hyphen). Once I typed 'lightblue' it worked!

Appreciate the help!

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

I find that a lot of people have this problem where they use a hex-value rather than a key word...The thing that amazes me most about that is, I have no idea where they get the value from!

Gil Bento
Gil Bento
4,704 Points

Just copy/pasted from one of the lesson files. I definitely don't know the hex codes by heart!

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Just copy/pasted from one of the lesson files.

The projects done in the videos are merely meant to be instructive not are not setup to allow you copy & paste from a video into a code challenge, and that's a good thing because you don't tend to learn much when you just copy and paste copy without fully understanding how it works.