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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Understanding Values and Units Styling the Intro Paragraph

Posted by Julia Clickner
Julia Clickner
2,395 Points

I need help understanding what I am doing wrong here. Thanks!

The challenge is:

Create a new rule that targets the span element inside. intro. give the span element a bold font weight and italic style.

When I add span to intro then it tells me that the first challenge for font size is wrong, yet I have not made any changes to that piece.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Lake Tahoe</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  </head>
  <body> 
    <header id="top" class="main-header">
      <span class="title">Journey Through the Sierra Nevada Mountains</span>
      <h1>Lake Tahoe, California</h1>
    </header>
    <div class="primary-content t-border">
      <p class="intro">
        Lake Tahoe is one of the most <span>breathtaking attractions</span> located in California. It's home to a number of ski resorts, summer outdoor recreation, and tourist attractions. Snow and skiing are a significant part of the area's reputation.
      </p>
      <a href="#more">Find out more</a>
    </div>
    <footer class="main-footer">
      <p>All rights reserved to the state of <a href="#">California</a>.</p>
      <a href="#top">Back to top &raquo;</a>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.intro span {
  font-size:1.25em;
  line-height:1.6em;
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: bold;
}

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points

It looks like you may have missed the part of the instructions that say "Create a new rule ...". By changing the selector of the original rule, it no longer applies to the paragraph as intended.

Leave the rule created in the other task as it was, and start a new one for this task.

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hi Julia,

The issue here is I think you missed the a couple key words in the instructions:

Create a new rule that targets the span element inside. intro

You need to "Create a new rule", but you just modified the rule you had for Task 2 and 3.

Task 4 needs a new rule as will task five. So, the start of Task four would be:

.intro {
  font-size: 1.25em;
  line-height:1.6em;
}

.intro span {
 /* rules for task 4 here */
}

Nice work so far though!! :) :dizzy:

Julia Clickner
Julia Clickner
2,395 Points

Thank you!

Alonzo Delk
Alonzo Delk
6,991 Points
Alonzo Delk
Alonzo Delk
6,991 Points

Okay, I'm still confused because I thought that line-height's didn't need a closing?