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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Basic Structural Pseudo-Classes

Chase Boothe
Chase Boothe
1,353 Points
Posted by Chase Boothe
Chase Boothe
1,353 Points

:only-child not working

:only-child is not working for me... what could be the problem...

:only-child { background: lightcoral; }

2 Answers

Enzio Rossa
Enzio Rossa
2,661 Points

You should specify a selector before :only-child, for example:

p:only-child { background: lightcoral; }

or

#div ul li a:only-child { background: lightcoral; }
Raven Askew
Raven Askew
1,653 Points
Raven Askew
Raven Askew
1,653 Points

I was having this same issue and found your question. One thing to note is that Guil does not specify a selector in this video when he is on this step, and yet it works for him. I took a screenshot, but it can be seen around 4:07 in this video that he puts :only-child without any selector in front of the colon.