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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Basic Attribute Selectors

Posted by Hamzah Soboh
Hamzah Soboh
2,534 Points

Not working!

isn't this the right code for the 1st task??

A[title] {color: darkred;}

2 Answers

James Gill
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James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points
James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

I think a [id="title"]{color: darkred} is what you want.

eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points

No, it's asking for anchor elements with a title attribute, not anchors whose id is "title".

Hamzah Soboh
Hamzah Soboh
2,534 Points

" a[title] {color: darkred;} " did work I just had to refresh the page something was wrong with the css page

eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points
eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points

You target anchor elements by using a lowercase a instead of uppercase, like this:

a[title] {
    color: darkred;
}
James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

I don't think anchor elements are case sensitive.

Hamzah Soboh
Hamzah Soboh
2,534 Points

thank you! I tried that once it didn't work but when I refreshed the page and wrote it again it worked, guess it was a bug

eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points

Wow, they're actually not. I really thought they were.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points 
    Just to double check I made a test case in codepen to double check CSS isn't case sensative.

http://codepen.io/jamesbarnett/pen/sfAty

Further reading:

> Although CSS is itself case-insensitive, class and ID names are defined to be case-sensitive in HTML 4.01

source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Case_Sensitivity_in_class_and_id_Names

see also: http://xahlee.info/js/case_sensitivity_html5_xml_css_js.html

eirikvaa
eirikvaa
18,015 Points

Thank you for the great resources, James!