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marsha spell
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marsha spell
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Posted by marsha spell
marsha spell
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help please

Challenge task 3 of 6

Select the em inside the paragraph using a descendant selector. Set its color to 'red'. here is what I got.... em {color: red; } not sure what I'm doing wrong here

5 Answers

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
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Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,442 Points

What you're saying is "select all em tags in the HTML document, and apply a font color of red"; opposed to saying "select all em elements that are nested within a paragraph element and add the properties to it". To do this you need to provide two selectors: The first being, I guess, "the parent" element", and the second being the nested element you want too retrieve from that parent element. They should be separated using a space.

Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster
18,449 Points
Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster
18,449 Points

You need to select the <em> tag that is specifically inside a <p> tag, I guess that there is probably only one in the example, but if there were more your code would select every <em> tag on the page. Try to be more specific (you need to have the <p> tag referenced somewhere)

Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster
18,449 Points
Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster
18,449 Points

Oh, it didn't display the html tags... You need to select the 'em' tag that is specifically inside a 'p' tag, I guess that there is probably only one in the example, but if there were more your code would select every 'em' tag on the page. Try to be more specific (you need to have the 'p' tag referenced somewhere)

Maya Han
Maya Han
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Maya Han
Maya Han
6,069 Points

I'm guessing that 'em inside the paragraph' would be: p em {color:red;}