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In this video, we'll go over each of the CSS selectors for this practice session.
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Hey there, how'd it go?
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Hopefully you were able to write most or
all the selectors for
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this practice session.
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Now let's walk through the solution.
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First, to change the color of all the list
items nested inside an unordered list.
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You should have created a descendent
selector that targets li tags nested
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inside a ul tag, and I chose the color
lightcoral as the text color.
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Next, to remove the text operation
from navigation links only, I
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created a descendent selector that targets
anchor elements inside the nav tag.
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Now you could have also included
the link pseudo class and
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the selector to target the links.
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Then right below it,
I created a similar descendant selector,
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this time using the :hover psuedo-class
and set the color to skyblue.
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To create hover and visited styles for
links inside the main element,
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I wrote two selectors,
one that targets hovered links inside main
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and one that targets links inside
main that have been visited.
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And I chose to change the color to tomato
and remove the text decoration on hover.
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And I change the text color
to skyblue once visited.
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So next up, to change the background
color of the submit button when active.
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You should have used an attribute
selector that targets an input element
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with a type of submit followed
by the active pseudo-class,
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and I chose firebrick as
the active background color.
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Then to give the text field
a blue border upon focus,
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I once again used an attribute selector.
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This time it targets an input
element with a type of text and
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to apply a border upon focus,
I used the pseudo-class and
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gave it a 1 pixel solid border that
matches the color of the button.
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All right, so let's keep going.
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For the next two selectors, you first had
to apply classes and IDs to elements.
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So I gave the span tag in the footer
a class attribute and the value copyright.
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I then selected the class in the style
sheet using a class selector with a period
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in front of the name, and
reduced the font size value to 12 pixels.
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Back in the HTML, I gave the image
tag in the header the ID site logo.
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Then to select it, I wrote an ID
selector which uses the hash symbol in
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front of the name,
then set the width to 190 pixels.
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Finally, the page uses only h1, h2 and
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h3 tags, so I selected all three
headings in one rule by grouping them
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with a comma separated
list of element selectors.
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And I applied the Bree Serif,
serif font stack as the font-family value.
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All right, so
now your page should look similar to this.
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And it's totally okay if you
didn't get all the selectors.
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Just keep practicing them until you
start feeling comfortable using them.
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You're also going to learn so much more
about CSS selectors in an upcoming course.
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I'll see you soon.
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