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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Build the Contact Page

Viraj Joshi
Viraj Joshi
2,815 Points
Posted by Viraj Joshi
Viraj Joshi
2,815 Points

Selected class

Why does he keep cutting it(class=".selected" into the new image?

1 Answer

Andrew Nguyen
Andrew Nguyen
1,250 Points
Andrew Nguyen
Andrew Nguyen
1,250 Points

He isn't cutting and pasting it onto a new image. He's assigning a class to the navigation links (portfolio, about, contact)

This is so he can edit the navigation links in the main.css file, to tell the user which page they are on.

If you look in main.css, at the very bottom you will see:

/* nav link */
nav a.selected, nav a:hover {
  color: #323f67;
}

nav a.selected chooses the 'nav' element, then the 'a' element with the class="selected" which turns it to the color #323f67 (blue)

So when you look at porfolio page, portfolio link is blue.

<li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>

In about page, about link is blue

<li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html" class="selected">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>

In contact page, contact link is blue

<li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html" class="selected">Contact</a></li>
Viraj Joshi
Viraj Joshi
2,815 Points
Viraj Joshi
Viraj Joshi
2,815 Points

Very detailed reply I get it now Thank you so much