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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Basic Attribute Selectors

Gina Bégin
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Gina Bégin
Courses Plus Student 8,613 Points
Posted by Gina Bégin
Gina Bégin
Courses Plus Student 8,613 Points

RE: 1st Challenge Task for the CSS "Selectors" tutorial

In the Challenge Task for the CSS "Selectors" tutorial, we are asked to "Create an attribute selector that will target <a> elements with a title attribute. Add a color property with the value darkred."

I tried

a [title] {
  color: darkred;
}

a [class="title"] {
  color: darkred;
}

and finally:

a [class=title] {
  color: darkred;
}

None of these worked (probably obviously...but I can't see what I'm missing!). What's the solution?

Thank you!

3 Answers

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Gina,

Your 1st one is what you want except you need to remove the space in the selector a[title]

With a space between the two you're creating a descendant selector.

Dean Wiseman
Dean Wiseman
20,901 Points
Dean Wiseman
Dean Wiseman
20,901 Points

Try without the space after the anchor element.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

You're welcome