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Brad Holliday
Courses Plus Student 2,869 PointsCSS
Select the em inside the paragraph using a descendant selector. Set its color to red.
2 Answers
Joey Vanderzee
17,978 PointsWhat they are looking for you to do is to select those em elements that are nested within your p elements in the editor. To do this, you use what is called a descendant selector in your CSS.
To do this is quite simple, just start by selecting the paragraph element in your CSS as you normally would, but then after a space, insert the descendant selector you wish to target(make sure it is before curly braces). ex.
div p {
color: blue;
};
The above example would target the p elements nested within the div element, and style them directly.
Brad Holliday
Courses Plus Student 2,869 PointsWhat does that mean to select the em inside the paragraph using a descendant selector. Set its color to red. ( this is a question)