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css attribute of background color in nav a selector does not turn the back ground color of the nav items

nav a { color:red; background-color: blue; } does not turn the background color to blue

2 Answers

Teja Tummalapalli
Teja Tummalapalli
5,592 Points

nav a select all a elements in the nav. To make background of both nav and a tags you need to use the selector nav,a. Check if it works.

Found it thanks