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CSS CSS Foundations Advanced Selectors Pseudo-Classes: :nth-child

Posted by Andrew Lawlor
Andrew Lawlor
1,401 Points

Code challenge hangup

I got the first task correct which was: "Use the :nth-child pseudo-class to target the even list items only. Set the color to white and the background color to black."

The second task is: "Create a new rule that targets the 3rd list item only. Set the background color to the HEX value FF6347."

My CSS looks like this:

li:nth-child(even) { color: white; background-color: black; }

li:nth-child(3) { background-color: FF6347; }

It keeps telling me that the second task is wrong. Can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong here or if I'm missing something. Thank you in advance!

1 Answer

Kevin Kenger
Kevin Kenger
32,834 Points
Kevin Kenger
Kevin Kenger
32,834 Points

Hey Andrew,

It looks like you just forgot to add the # in front of your hexadecimal value.