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CSS

Leslie Wolfe
Leslie Wolfe
8,700 Points
Posted by Leslie Wolfe
Leslie Wolfe
8,700 Points

Why are the styled elements - links still underlined?

I'm not understanding why all the pseudo class elements are underlined when we did not declare that.

2 Answers

Natasha Godwin
Natasha Godwin
11,012 Points

Could you share your code? That way, we'll have more context when answering your question. Generally speaking, links are underlined by default. You can remove them in your stylesheet with the following declaration:

a {
text-decoration: none;
}

If you only want to remove the text-decoration for links within a specific div, you'll need to write its class or id, plus the normal link declaration, like so:

.class a {
text-decoration: none;
}

or 

#id a {
text-decoration: none;
}
Leslie Wolfe
Leslie Wolfe
8,700 Points
Leslie Wolfe
Leslie Wolfe
8,700 Points

Thanks so much for responding. I tried to post this under the questions section of a particular video https://teamtreehouse.com/library/css-basics/basic-selectors/pseudoclasses but I don't think I was successful. Natasha, the text-decoration: none; was all I needed to understand. Thanks so much!

Natasha Godwin
Natasha Godwin
11,012 Points

Gotcha. Happy to help!