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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Basic Attribute Selectors

Matthew Clark
Matthew Clark
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Posted by Matthew Clark
Matthew Clark
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What is the issue with my code here?

/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */ a title [class] { color: darkred; }

1 Answer

Ethan Lowry
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Ethan Lowry
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Ethan Lowry
Ethan Lowry
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What are you trying to achieve exactly? Normally when using attribute selectors you need to apply both the attribute name and the value for that attribute that you want your selector to select. Or if you just want to check if the element has the attribute at all, and don't care about its value, you would just supply the attribute name, sort of like you have done there.

For example, the following would select input elements with a "type" attribute of "text":

input[type="text"] { padding: 3px; }

And this would just select all image elements with an 'alt' attribute:

img[alt] { border: 1px solid black; }

But your example is a little strange - you seem to be trying to select the "class" attribute - but selecting by class is such a standard and command action in CSS that there is no need for complex attribute selectors, instead you would just use:

a.class_name { color: red; }

Perhaps that was just a bad example on your part, though.