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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Classes in CSS

Posted by rileygault
rileygault
1,475 Points

nav a.selected not working

Hello,

I can't seem to get the word "Portfolio" to be dark green at all times (or in other words, my nav a.selected doesn't seem to be working). Here's my html:

<body> <header> <a href="index.html" id="logo"> <h1>Riley Gault</h1> <h2>Software Engineer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </nav> </header>

And my CSS:

a{ color: #6ab47b } header{ background: #6ab47b; border-color:#599a68; }

h1, h2{ color: #fff; }

nav{ background: #599a68; }

nav a, nav a:visited{ color:#fff; }

nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color:#32673f; }

Thanks for the help!!

2 Answers

rileygault
rileygault
1,475 Points

This is magically fixed. I didn't change anything, just refreshed the page one more time and it worked! Thanks anyways!

Pat Rik
Pat Rik
304 Points
Pat Rik
Pat Rik
304 Points

same issue here, but refreshing doesn't work... here is what i coded, made I didn't get sth.

html: <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" class:"selected">Portfolio</a></li>

css: nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color: #32673f; }

pat barosy
pat barosy
6,759 Points
pat barosy
pat barosy
6,759 Points

It should be class="selected". Remove the colon & replace it with an equal sign