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CSS CSS Basics Understanding Values and Units Pixels and Percentages

Posted by jack twist
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jack twist
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 18,575 Points

make the <h1> element with the class "heading" larger. Increase its font size to 48 pixels

doesn't it need to add h1 after .heading, so it's a descendant selector, but it gives bummer; if I delete h1, its corre

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.heading h1{
font-size:48px;
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <title>Developer Diane: Resume</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main>
    <header>
      <div id="header-box">
        <h1 class="heading">Developer Diane: Resume</h1>
        <address>
          <p>website: developerdiane.com</p>
          <p>email: diane@developerdiane.com</p>
        </address>
        <img src="developer-diane.jpg" alt="Developer Diane coding on her laptop.">
      </div>
    </header>          
    <section id="education">
      <h2>Education</h2>          
      <ul>
        <li>
          <h3><a href="https://teamtreehouse.com">Treehouse</a></h3>
          <p>Front End <em>Web Development</em> Techdegree</p>
          <p class="date special">Graduated January 2020</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <section id="experience">
      <h2>Experience</h2>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <h3>Super Web Design Shop</h3>
          <p>Junior Developer</p>
          <p class="date special">February 2020-present</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <h3>Pretty Good Websites, Inc.</h3>
          <p>Web Development Intern</p>
          <p class="date">July 2019-January 2020</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <section>
      <h2>Skills</h2>
      <ul id="skills-list">
        <li class="top-skill">HTML</li>
        <li>CSS</li>
        <li class="top-skill" id="proud">JavaScript</li>
        <li>Git</li>
        <li>Bootstrap</li>
        <li class="top-skill">Mobile Web Development</li>
        <li>Accessibility</li>
      </ul>
    </section>
    <section>
      <h2>Awards and Achievements</h2>
      <ol>
        <li>Dev Ninja Award, November 2020</li>
        <li>Developer of the Month, October 2019</li>
        <li>Achieved rating of 6 kyu on <a href="https://www.codewars.com/">Codewars</a></li>
        <li>Certified Accessibility Specialist</li>
      </ol>
    </section>
    <footer>©2020 Developer Diane.</footer>
  </main>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 33,900 Points

Hi Jack,

descendant would mean that the h1 is a child of the "heading". Like this:

<div class="heading">
    <h1>Heading Text</h1>
</div>

Then you could use the descendant selector .heading h1.

But this is not the html, the html in the task is:

<h1 class="heading">Developer Diane: Resume</h1>

So, here the h1 is NOT a descendant of the "heading" class, but the h1 has the "heading class" - big difference.

So you just use the name of the class and you pass the code challenge.

Makes sense?

Blessings from Berlin and happy coding, Nils

PS: If my answer helped you or solved your issues, please upvote my answer and/or mark it as "Best answer" (so people browsing the community forum know your issue is solved)

jack twist
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jack twist
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 18,575 Points

I understand now, great explanation! Thank you very much

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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 33,900 Points

Hi Jack,

just selecting it with the class name .heading is enough.

If you use .heading h1 you would actually select an h1 element that is a descendant of an element with the heading class (which is not the case).

Makes sense?

Blessings from Berlin and happy java-scripting, Nils

PS: If my answer helped you or solved your issues, please upvote my answer and/or mark it as "Best answer" (so people browsing the community forum know your issue is solved)

jack twist
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jack twist
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 18,575 Points

Hi Nils, thanks for your reply! I'm still a bit confused, since the question only asks to large h1, why doesn't descendant work?