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Posted by Shuddha Chowdhury
Shuddha Chowdhury
3,817 Points

Code challenge-Help pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I am having problem with code problems.Do you have any problems or instructions how to complete the code challenge problem? Suppose When I complete 1st objective of a code challenge,In the second task I am confused whether I should add code just after the 1st code or do it from scratch ? Many times I got this common message that it seems like that the task one is no longer passing? For example consider this problem- In the CSS Selectors badge there is a code challenge and the 1st task said to do this task : http://teamtreehouse.com/library/websites/css-foundations-2/selectors-reshoot/basic-structural-pseudoclasses-2

Select the li that is the first child of the ul. Set the color to 'white' and background color to 'black'."

li:first-child{ background-color: black; color:white; }
And it just worked fine.

Next, target the li that is the last child of the ul. Set its border to 'none'.

li: last-child { border : none; }

or this one ? li:last-child{ background-color: black; color:white; border: none; }

I am really confused and it showed me error all the time.I am also having similar type problem in other code challenge problem.Your help is highly appreciated.Thanks .Also Is there any other way to see the correct answer in code challenge?Thanks again.

5 Answers

Daniel Muvdi
Daniel Muvdi
5,262 Points
Daniel Muvdi
Daniel Muvdi
5,262 Points

the problem is not your code, the problem is that you cant delete the code from the first task.

colingallagher
colingallagher
9,743 Points
colingallagher
colingallagher
9,743 Points

This worked for me:

li:last-child{border: none;}

You have a space between li: and last-child{border:none;} in your post that might have caused it to fail.

However when I entered the following it worked just fine:

li:last-child{ background-color: black; color:white; border: none; }
Shuddha Chowdhury
Shuddha Chowdhury
3,817 Points
Shuddha Chowdhury
Shuddha Chowdhury
3,817 Points

Thanks so much .It just worked at last after too much painful waiting.Thanks again

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

You always ADD to the code that's already there. So task 2 builds on task 1 etc. That way, if you do something that has an effect on task 1 and you get it wrong or change task 1's answer, you fail.

Paul Kirsch
Paul Kirsch
2,894 Points
Paul Kirsch
Paul Kirsch
2,894 Points

BTW, this code seemed to require that everything was on the same horizontal line for some reason. Wouldn't work as separate lines. Also be sure to notice that the second question refers to the last child, so that makes a second line of code.