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Jacob Israeli
Courses Plus Student 3,702 Pointswhy am i have trouble with attribute selector?
shouldn't this work? a[input="text}{background-color: lightyellow} --- these errors give me nothing to go on.
3 Answers
mrx3
8,742 Pointsnot sure if this is correct, but try
a[input="text"]{background-color:lightyellow;}
It looks like you have a } instead of a ] at the end of the text part and you need a ; at the end of lightyellow Hope this helps and works out.
Jacob Israeli
Courses Plus Student 3,702 Pointsno no this is exactly what i had.... the typo i had here did not appear in my code...
mrx3
8,742 PointsSorry Jacob I'm not sure then. Wish I could've helped out better. Looks like Jimmy got it though. Good luck.
Jimmy Hsu
6,511 PointsWhat are you trying to style?
I don't believe anchor tags have an input attribute to select from. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a
Jimmy Hsu
6,511 PointsLooking further into the related code challenge, I've noticed you've gotten it wrong.
Look back into how the selectors work. Currently, with
a[input="text"]{background-color:lightyellow;}
it is invalid as there is no 'a[input="text"]'
Input is not a valid attribute, however type is.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input
You are selecting an input, with a type equal to text. You should be able to figure it out from here.