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CSS

Posted by Chase Bratton
Chase Bratton
2,011 Points

Grouping selectors

I'm having a hard time understanding the CSS Foundations quiz question:

"When we group selectors, what happens if we place a comma after the last selector?"

Is this referring to the HTML or CSS pages?

Also, I'm not sure why there would even be a need to add a coma after the last selector.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Without a link to the quiz you are having issues with someone would have guess which one it is, to be able to double check their answer.

Mårten Björk
Mårten Björk
3,776 Points

The post is referring to one of the questions in this quiz: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/css-foundations/selectors/grouping-and-modifying-selectors

1 Answer

Mårten Björk
Mårten Björk
3,776 Points

It's referring to the CSS code. If you add a comma after the last rule, like this…

.volvo, .open, .ford, {
    border: 1px solid red;
}

…that entire code block will be ignored by the web browser, because the syntax is invalid. When grouping selectors, the last one should not have a comma after it. The correct answer is: “The entire rule gets ignored by the browser.”