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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Basic Attribute Selectors

Rene Muhire
Rene Muhire
1,627 Points
Posted by Rene Muhire
Rene Muhire
1,627 Points

Stuck on a CSS challenge and need your help

The challenge is: Add a new attribute selector that will target the input element with the type attribute value text. Set the background color to lightyellow.

Below is the code that I wrote but I'm not sure where I'm going wrote! Can you tell me where I'm getting it wrong?

input [type="text"] {background-color:lightyellow;}

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

dont put a space between input and the [

input[type="text"] {background-color:lightyellow;}

whereas before you had

input [type="text"] {background-color:lightyellow;}

the space after the t in input is not correct, the bracket needs to fall right after the word without a space

Rene Muhire
Rene Muhire
1,627 Points
Rene Muhire
Rene Muhire
1,627 Points

Thanks Stone, that's a mistake I wont be repeating.