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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Make It Beautiful With CSS Adding a Style to several Elements using Class

Mark Sims
Mark Sims
2,637 Points
Posted by Mark Sims
Mark Sims
2,637 Points

My answer should be correct. Why does it keep saying that it is wrong?

Is this a bug or have I just forgot to add something?

index.html 
<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>List Example</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
  </head>
  <body>

    <a href="#"class="social-links">Follow me on Twitter!</a>
    <a href="#"class="social-links">Send me an Email!</a>

  </body>
</html>
styles.css 
a
.social-links
{padding: 15px;
  margin: 10px;}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Placing the "a" and the ".social-links" on separate lines creates a descendant selector, where one item would need to be inside the other for the rule to select it. To target a single item by both tag name and class, the two names should be connected with only the period between them. If you fix that you'll pass.

However, for this challenge, you only need to specify the class itself to pass.

Mark Sims
Mark Sims
2,637 Points
Mark Sims
Mark Sims
2,637 Points

Thanks a bunch for your help. There are so many little things that can make your answer wrong. I have to keep track of that.