I've added the '>a' selector directly inside the 'p' selector, but it's still giving the bummer message.

Can you show us your Sass code? It doesn't matter whether you put a space between > and a, but there's probably something else not quite right.

Yeah thats true it should not matter if a space is added though its just incase the task passed that as correct syntax because at times I have notice the syntax checking on tasks are either strict or not.

After checking what challenge you were referring to I discovered you do not need a direct selector the answer is below. This goes back to my point about correct syntax although your code should work it does not apply it all all anchor tags within a p tag just the direct '<a>' tag children of that '<p>' tag so if you had to have a ' p > a > a ' The anchors direct '<a>' tag child would not be red. Hope this helped! "This is if you are reffering to task 4"

p{
 a{
  color: red;
 }
}

Here was the spot that I was having the issue with...

p {
  a {
    color: red;
  }
  > a {
    color: blue;
  }
}

Adding the space between > and a is what worked for me...

The weird thing is I ran the challenge myself with the exact same code and it worked just fine with or without the space between > and a.

Glad you got it working!