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CSS

Posted by Birk Dinges
Birk Dinges
10,551 Points

Stuck in CSS Foundations code challenge

Dear Treehouse Forum,

I seem to be stuck at the 2nd Selectors code challenge and don't really know what I'm doing wrong here. The 2nd task says "Use the Adjacent Sibling Combinator to select the <p> elements that immediately follow the h2. Set their background to lightblue.", which I did:

h2 + p { background-color: #0ff; }

Where is my mistake?

3 Answers

Elliott Frazier
Elliott Frazier
Courses Plus Student 9,647 Points

instead of the color value "background-color: #0ff;" have you tried using "background-color: lightblue;"?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The reason for this is that the CSS color keywords actually correspond to a particular hex color. For instance the color keyword lightblue is equivalent to #ADD8E6.

Here's the complete list of CSS color keywords and their hex color equivalents.

Birk Dinges
Birk Dinges
10,551 Points
Birk Dinges
Birk Dinges
10,551 Points

Whoops. Problem solved.. Thanks a lot! So apparently the error message doesn't necessarily match the actual mistake. I won't dare to ask such a simple question again. ;-)

Elliott Frazier
Elliott Frazier
Courses Plus Student 9,647 Points

No problem!

- Happy Coding!

Carlos Gomez
Carlos Gomez
5,274 Points
Carlos Gomez
Carlos Gomez
5,274 Points

Had the same problem. The error message did not match the actual problem for sure, so it was confusing for a bit.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

There isn't such as thing as CSS errors, there is however CSS validation tools such as CSS Lint.

So my advice is to think of code challenge errors as generic errors and then validate your CSS.

If your CSS is valid, then double check the instructions.

Carlos Gomez
Carlos Gomez
5,274 Points

Will do. Thanks for the tip!