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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Type, Class, and ID Selectors

Posted by Sabrina Gluck
Sabrina Gluck
5,941 Points

Select the em insideSelect the em inside the paragraph using a descendant selector. Set its color to red.

Can't figure out what's wrong??

p em {color: red};

2 Answers

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

What you typed on the forum is good, but maybe there is something wrong in your code above what you typed (as you haven't posted it, I can't tell), probably an unnecessary curcly brace ? I don't know, you should check, here is the right css.

EDIT: you closed the curcly brace and then you put the semi-colon, It's the reverse...That's the mistake you did.

body{

  background-color:lightblue;
}

h1{
 color:darkblue; 

}

p em{

  color:red;

}
Sabrina Gluck
Sabrina Gluck
5,941 Points
Sabrina Gluck
Sabrina Gluck
5,941 Points

Thank you Geoffrey,

Looks like the ( ; ) was the problem I remove the ( ; ) inside the curly braces and worked! thanks again