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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Adding a Style to several Elements using Class

Posted by lil crack
lil crack
1,732 Points

need help plz ?

what did i do wrong and by the way i've solved the last question but i just wanna know what did i do wrong aprreciate your help ? :)

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>List Example</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
  </head>
  <body>

    <p> <a class = social-links href="#">Follow me on Twitter!</a> </P>
    <a class = social-links href="#">Send me an Email!</a>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
 <a>
.social-links{
  padding=15px;
  margin=10px
 }
</a>
 <a>
.social-links{
  padding=15px;
   margin=10px
}
</a>

2 Answers

Andrew Mlamba
Andrew Mlamba
15,642 Points

Hi there lil,

In the index.html:

  1. There is no need to add any other tag outside of the anchor tags(<a></a>), so remove these.
  2. The class attribute(social-links) should be enclosed in double quotes(" ").

In the styles.css:

  1. You are required to Select and Style by Class and not by Element, so remove the anchor tags.
  2. You only need to Select the class once, so remove the duplicate class.
  3. Styling is applied in this format e.g color: #384047;

Please note the colon(:) after the property and the semi-colon(;) after the properties value.

I hope this helps. If it does, please feel free to mark it as best answer

lil crack
lil crack
1,732 Points

thnks :) <3

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,787 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,787 Points

I see three issues in the CSS:

  • there should not be HTML tags (like "<a>") in the CSS file
  • properties should be separated by a colon (":"), not an equal sign ("=")
  • the CSS rule is duplicated

Also, while it does not affect passing the challenge, you would generally not want spaces between attributes, the equal sign, and the values in an HTML tag. It's also good practice to enclose the values in quotes.