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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Basic Structural Pseudo-Classes

Posted by Justin Ward
Justin Ward
1,915 Points

firstchild task

The task is as follows:

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

I wrote this code:

li:firstchild { color:white; background-color:black; }

but it says it's incorrect. What am I doing wrong?

2 Answers

Jacob M.
Jacob M.
5,122 Points

The syntax is :first-child instead of :firstchild

Justin Ward
Justin Ward
1,915 Points
Justin Ward
Justin Ward
1,915 Points

Oops, silly mistake. Thank you.