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CSS The Selectors Solution

Posted by nicolaspeterson
nicolaspeterson
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main a:hover not working please help!

I input the color value for main a:hover exactly as shown in the video, but it won't work when I launch the page. Any idea why? I opened the inspector on the webpage and the color property and its value were crossed out. I thought perhaps the browser wouldn't render the tomato color so I tried changing it to a simple red, but it still wouldn't work. I have no idea why this is...

Muaaz Matwadia
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Muaaz Matwadia
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 19,327 Points

Hi nicolaspeterson ,Can you show your code?Thanks

1 Answer

Avery Blake
Avery Blake
7,418 Points
Avery Blake
Avery Blake
7,418 Points

I had the same issue, but then i solved it by putting the 'main a: visited' rule above the 'main a: hover' rule in my stylesheet.

like this: main a:visited { color: red; }

main a:hover{ color: aqua; }

Here is a quote i found from the MDN docs. "To style links appropriately, put the :visited rule after the :link rule but before the :hover and :active rules, as defined by the LVHA-order: :link — :visited — :hover — :active."

MDN :visited rule doc - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited