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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Using Combinators in Selectors

Posted by Owen Swift
Owen Swift
5,744 Points

Creating child selectors?

what am i doing wrong i really don't get it i can't find the div class I'm meant to put in.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>More Selectors</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css2-main-style.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Combinators</h1>
    <div>
        <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc pulvinar consequat tortor, nec venenatis erat elementum scelerisque. Curabitur sit amet risus nisi. Aenean aliquet euismod augue at viverra. Ut varius arcu in.</p>
        <a href="#">Lorem iaculis ullamco.</a>
        <h2>Donec tempor sodales</h2>
        <p>Sed tincidunt rutrum enim, vitae pharetra justo suscipit a. Nam eu egestas risus. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Nam tempor, augue quis.</p>
        <a href="#">Donec eget lorem id nisi.</a>
        <p>Sed sit amet nulla elit, vel lacinia nisi. Donec eget lorem id nisi vehicula auctor id et dui. Etiam aliquet aliquet sem in rutrum. Cras posuere pharetra <a href="#">sem vitae egestas</a>.</p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.main > a {
  color:green;
  font-weight:bold;
}

1 Answer

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Owen,

You're almost there.

The challenge is asking for you to Create a child selector to target the anchor element that is a direct child of the div. Set its color to green and font weight to bold.

Based on that you'd just need:

div > a {
  color: green;
  font-weight: bold;
}

The above targets all anchor tags with a direct div parent.

Hope that makes sense.

-Rich

Owen Swift
Owen Swift
5,744 Points

Ah thats where i was going wrong. at one point i put .div > a but i forgot it was a div for a second.