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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Type, Class, and ID Selectors

Posted by Taurean Jones
Taurean Jones
1,482 Points

I am unable to select the em inside the p and color it red

I think I am placing the the descendant selector in the wrong place

em p {color:red;}

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>CSS Selectors</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="cc1-main-styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
  em p {color:red;}
</head>
<body class="main-body">
    <h1 class="main-h1"><em>Hello</em> World!</h1>
    <div>
        <p>
            <em>Lorem ipsum dolor</em> sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc pulvinar consequat tortor, nec venenatis erat elementum scelerisque. Curabitur sit amet risus nisi. Aenean aliquet euismod augue at viverra. Ut varius arcu in lorem iaculis ullamcorper. Integer eu rutrum quam.
        </p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.main-body {
    background-color: lightblue;
}

.main-h1 {
    color: darkblue;
}

2 Answers

kheiferfuller
kheiferfuller
8,635 Points
kheiferfuller
kheiferfuller
8,635 Points

In this instance em is a sub element of the p class.

To access an element you can either list them individually or group the elements together(element,element{}) such as:

// div, p { This will make rules for all div elements and all p elements

but to access a sub element(element subelement{}):

// .intro p { This will make rules for all p elements inside .intro elements

So for the problem you'd do: 

p em{
  color:red;
  font-style: italic;
}

Also what they're asking for is for you to utilize the style sheet or an external source for your css. However, in your example you appear to be using an internal css. If you were to use internal css you'd usually needs to be wrapped in a style tag:

 <head>
<style>
p em{
  color:red;
  font-style: italic;
}

</style>
</head>
Ben Chadwick
Ben Chadwick
4,836 Points
Ben Chadwick
Ben Chadwick
4,836 Points

Hey Taurean.

The code you have wrote is absolutely correct, it just needs to be in your style.css markup !

body {
  background:lightblue;
}

h1 {
  color: darkblue;
}

p em {
  color:red;
}

Hope it helps