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CSS

Gustavo Santana
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Gustavo Santana
Courses Plus Student 4,267 Points
Posted by Gustavo Santana
Gustavo Santana
Courses Plus Student 4,267 Points

Lets play another round of whats wrong with the code!?

li:nth-child(even) {
  color: white;
  background: black;
}

li:nth-child(3) {
    background-color: FF6347;
}

This 'pseudo class nth-child' challenge is the second out of the 4 needed to succeed stage 3's step 4 of advanced selectors in the css deep dive. It asks for you to make the 3rd Nth child have a background color of FF6347. When i do this very same thing on Sublime 2 it fails to give it a color.

Anyone else have this issue or is it just me?

UPDATE: While typing this up and attempting to troubleshoot, it occurred to me to search what the color should be. This color is supposed to be tomato. I put this in and it worked. Was this part of the plan or should this be fixed?

2 Answers

Elliott Frazier
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Elliott Frazier
Courses Plus Student 9,647 Points
Elliott Frazier
Elliott Frazier
Courses Plus Student 9,647 Points

You need to add a hashtag (#) before declaring a hex color value. but if your using predefined colors such as red, blue, seagreen, blanchedalmond, ect... you don't need to.

Example:

div{
  color: #f923de;
  background-color: lightsteelblue;
}
Gustavo Santana
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Gustavo Santana
Courses Plus Student 4,267 Points
Gustavo Santana
Gustavo Santana
Courses Plus Student 4,267 Points

HA! Thanks so much I love it how the small things are always the ones that make you really scratch your head. Completely forgot about the hashtag. Silly me. :)

I bow in thanks to you.