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Justin Bgoni
4,821 PointsStruggling with this one
This is the question: Open a scope for <a> tags and make their color 5% lighter than the standard red
My answer is as follows: a { color:lighten (red, 5%); }
Why is it wrong?
4 Answers
Jeff Busch
19,287 PointsHi Justin,
Remove the space after lighten. You may also need to add a space before lighten but I don't think so.
Jeff
Yan Cruz
20,439 Pointsa { color:lighten(red, 5%); }
Is the code I used and it worked.
Marc-Oliver Gern
8,747 PointsWas a bit confused with the word "scope". Maybe it makes sense to stick to some name conventions (css rule, with selector "a"?)
Raymundo Figueroa
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 25,606 PointsThx a { color:lighten(red, 5%); }