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CSS jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Drawing Application Perform: Part 1

Posted by Alexander Soroka
Alexander Soroka
3,769 Points

I'm not understanding where the class 'selected' is being declared.

Where is the class 'selected' specified? I don't see it in the index.html. I see classes on the li's of 'red selected', 'blue', and 'yellow'. What am I missing?

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Alexander,

I'm not sure if you're asking specifically about the html but you found the li where the class "selected" is.

When you first start out, it's the first list item which is red that is given the "selected" class. From then on, javascript is used to keep track of which color is selected and to move that "selected" class around to the different list items.

Elements can have more than one class assigned to it. So when you see class="red selected" That means the element has a class of "red" and a class of "selected". Multiple classes are separated by a space.

You could select either of those classes in the css or both of them together in order to target that element for styling.

Is that what you were asking about?

Alexander Soroka
Alexander Soroka
3,769 Points

Exactly what I was asking about. Time to go retake CSS course! Thanks Jason!