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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Style the Basic Elements

I cannot move to the next challenge! Please help!

I am in the Code Challenge: Style the Basic Elements from the Web Design. It is asking me to remove the underlines from all the links on the page. I can see the HTML page in the Preview. But when I click the Editor button I dont see any HTML tags the window is just black. Therefore I cannot do what the challenge is asking me to do and I cannot move forward to the next challenge or video in my track. I already tried to log in and out, refresh my browser several times. But, nothing seems to help.

Any suggestions?

8 Answers

alex mattingley
alex mattingley
7,508 Points

Are they asking you to build the structure of the page first? Sounds like it might be a bug.

Edit: Not a bug. You just need to enter your styles for your a tag.

Eg:

a {
//do something
}
Jeremy Frimond
Jeremy Frimond
14,470 Points

The black area is where you enter in all your code. On the all black page enter in the following:

a {
    text-decoration:none;
}
Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points

When you jump to the editor it should be the css file where you will place your style rules. It is blank because you have not yet entered any rules.

Challenge task 1 of 3

They are asking to remove the underlines from all the links on the page. Then I have the black screen of the editor all in black with not code on it. But, if I change it to Preview I can see the website we are building on the lesson.

Challenge task 1 of 3

They are asking to remove the underlines from all the links on the page. Then I have the black screen of the editor all in black with not code on it. But, if I change it to Preview I can see the website we are building on the lesson.

Try a different browser. Team Treehouse seems to recommend Chrome. Mozilla works too. Otherwise a good idea is to try to clear the cache through the 'clear history' option on any browser. Also try restarting the computer just in case.

assuming i am misunderstanding the issue, you are saying that it is not giving you any editor correct? If the editor has no code but allows you to add code, then just add the code to the page that would solve the issue text-decoration: none;

Keith Kelly
Keith Kelly
21,326 Points

I think it is working fine. It is blank because in the challenge you are supposed to edit the css and not the html. That is why there is not html code. Type your css rule into the blank page and it should work correctly.

Keith-- Yes you are correct. Thanks for your promptly response. :)