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CSS CSS Foundations Advanced Selectors Additional Pseudo-Classes

Ryan Ganley
Ryan Ganley
1,943 Points
Posted by Ryan Ganley
Ryan Ganley
1,943 Points

Not working

I am using: a[href*="#"] { background: tomato; }

2 Answers

Phillip Gibson
Phillip Gibson
13,805 Points

It's actually asking you to select any element whose ID matches the current target in the URL. Meaning if you go to www.example.com#abc, it wants the element where ID="abc" to have a tomato colored background.

To do this, you will actually use the :target {} selector, since you want the actual target and not the anchor that links to that target. You can learn more about this in the associated video for that challenge (Additional Pseudo-Classes) at around the 2:00 mark.

Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points
Jeff Busch
Jeff Busch
19,287 Points

Hi Jason,

URLs with an # followed by an anchor name, link to a certain element within a document. The element being linked to is the target element. The :target selector can be used to style the current active target element.

Jeff