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CSS

Chris Beyer
Chris Beyer
969 Points
Posted by Chris Beyer
Chris Beyer
969 Points

CSS link color Styling within an NAV

I am in the CSS part of how to build a website. I have never been so stumped and I have done work with CSS in the past. The question asks to style a link the color white within an NAV. I put Nav a{color:#fff;}. It says it is wrong. Although I got it right last night and seemed to have lost the work. I don't know what else to try. Actually my goal is really to get to Ruby on rails. I thought I just need a review of CSS as I haven't worked with it in a while. Please help otherwise I will not be able to progress to Rails.

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

The challenges can be a bit picky so if they asked for "white", I would spell out the color just as they did instead of using the number equivalent. And I would avoid upper case in the selector. Based on how you quoted the challenge, I would submit this:

nav a { color: white; }
Trevor Woodman
PLUS
Trevor Woodman
Courses Plus Student 13,354 Points
Trevor Woodman
Trevor Woodman
Courses Plus Student 13,354 Points

In order to really help we would need your HTML so we can see exactly what you're trying to style.

If you just have a <nav> element and you're trying to style any <a> tags inside of it, and the <a> tags aren't inside of a list or anything (so you don't have to worry about specificity):

nav a {
    color: #fff;
}

Looks like you were writing nav with a capital N? That could have been your issue. But again, HTML is needed.