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

Christian Pelaez-Espinosa
Christian Pelaez-Espinosa
1,316 Points
Posted by Christian Pelaez-Espinosa
Christian Pelaez-Espinosa
1,316 Points

Nav text not changing to white

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

not working

4 Answers

klaudiarozgonyiova
klaudiarozgonyiova
10,711 Points

Hi,

You have a typo in your code. It's "visited" not "vistied" ;)

Kireeti K
Kireeti K
9,675 Points
Kireeti K
Kireeti K
9,675 Points

Nice Observation

Kireeti K
Kireeti K
9,675 Points
Kireeti K
Kireeti K
9,675 Points

Hello Christian, Is anchor tag inside <nav> element?

klaudiarozgonyiova
klaudiarozgonyiova
10,711 Points

No problem, happens to all of us :)

Jason Gerlach
Jason Gerlach
4,415 Points
Jason Gerlach
Jason Gerlach
4,415 Points

I am having a similar problem but mine is just not changing

nav a, nav a: visited { color:#fff; } is my css i checked my html and it is

<nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href= "about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </nav> please tell me if this looks wrong or if i must look somewhere else to solve the problem

Alistair Jenkins
Alistair Jenkins
16,761 Points
Alistair Jenkins
Alistair Jenkins
16,761 Points

Hi Jason.

I had the same problem. Have you tried deleting the space between the colon and 'visited'? This worked for me. I guess this is how pseudo-classes are parsed.

I hope this helps! Alistair