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CSS CSS Selectors Advanced Selectors Pseudo-Elements Challenge

Posted by Jared Rauh
Jared Rauh
4,879 Points

I'm adding: content: attr(" "); and it is telling that's wrong

I'm adding:

content: attr(" ");

and it is telling that's wrong

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

.progbar::after {
  content: attr();
  display: block;
  width: 50%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: inherit;
    background-color: #5ece7f; 
}

.progbar {

    display: block;
    width: 24px;
    height: 24px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    left: 49%;
    top: -9px;
    background-color: #7dd898; 
}

.progbar {
  height: 6px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  background: #d6d7d9;
  position: relative;
  margin-bottom: 3.875em; 
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Selectors</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="progbar"></div> 
    <a href="http://teamtreehouse.com">Check out the URL: </a>
</body>
</html>

5 Answers

Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen
22,731 Points
Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen
22,731 Points

Oh I see, then you'd want this instead:

.progbar::after {
  content: "";
  display: block;
  width: 50%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: inherit;
    background-color: #5ece7f; 
}
Jared Rauh
Jared Rauh
4,879 Points

didn't work either :(

Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen
22,731 Points
Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen
22,731 Points

Hmm, would you be able to add the code you used for that task because content: ""; seems to work for me?

Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen
22,731 Points
Lisa Nguyen
Lisa Nguyen
22,731 Points

Hi Jared, it wants you to pass in a href attribute after the anchor, like this:

a::after {
  content: attr(href);
}
Jared Rauh
Jared Rauh
4,879 Points

that didn't work :(

The question says "In the same rule, add the property that lets us insert content into an element. The value should be an empty set of quotes."

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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I agree with Lisa Nguyen and can confirm that this code passes:

.progbar::after {
  content: "";
  display: block;
  width: 50%;
  height: 100%;
  border-radius: inherit;
  background-color: #5ece7f; 
}

If you copy paste this into the first progbar selector and it still fails, you might consider trying in a new browser (on the off chance there's something strange going on there). If it still persists, you're probably going to have to contact treehouse support. :sparkles:

Nicole Chinn
Nicole Chinn
8,122 Points
Nicole Chinn
Nicole Chinn
8,122 Points

I can confirm that the code works when you add the ::after psuedo element to the second css rule.

.progbar::after {
    content: "";
    display: block;
    width: 24px;
    height: 24px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    position: absolute;
    left: 49%;
    top: -9px;
    background-color: #7dd898; 
}
Rayssa Estrela
Rayssa Estrela
6,191 Points
Rayssa Estrela
Rayssa Estrela
6,191 Points

Hi Jared I see what is wrong, you just forgot that on this particular question has "insert a pseudo-element after an "a" element". So the code it will be: .progbar a::after { content: attr(href); display: block; width: 24px; height: 24px; border-radius: 50%; position: absolute; left: 49%; top: -9px; background-color: #7dd898; }

:)