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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Adding a Style to several Elements using Class

Posted by wazir sikandar
wazir sikandar
381 Points

In the CSS file, use the class to give both <a> tags 15px of padding and 10px of margin.

In the CSS file, use the class to give both <a> tags 15px of padding and 10px of margin.

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>List Example</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
  </head>
  <body>

    <a href="#" class="social-links">Follow me on Twitter!</a>
    <a href="#" class="social-links" >Send me an Email!</a>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
.social-links {

}

.social-links a{
padding: 15px;
  margin:10px;
}
Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,884 Points
Antonio De Rose
Antonio De Rose
20,884 Points 
social-links a{
padding: 15px;
  margin:10px;
}

I believe you cant do the above, you could do this, if it had been an element within an element, just like below, this way it selects, every p inside the div


div p{
  padding: 15px;
  margin:10px;
}

the answer for the challenge is below

social-links{
padding: 15px;
  margin:10px;
}

1 Answer

Nijesh Nj
Nijesh Nj
18,232 Points
Nijesh Nj
Nijesh Nj
18,232 Points

The <a> tags are directly mentioned inside the body. So you do not need to use a class attribute to <a> tags. You can simply write your css as:

a {
  padding: 15px;
  margin:10px;
}

It may also work by avoid the a after .social-links. Because the class social-links and a are same you don't need to use both.

.social-links {
  padding: 15px;
  margin:10px;
}

or You can wrap <a> tag witha div tag and the make its class to social-links 

<body>
  <div class="social-links">
      <a href="#">Follow me on Twitter!</a>
      <a href="#">Send me an Email!</a>
  </div>
</body>

and then rewrite the css as 

.social-links a {
  padding: 15px;
  margin:10px;
}