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CSS CSS Selectors Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes Substring Matching Attribute Selectors Challenge

Adrian Mindak
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Adrian Mindak
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Posted by Adrian Mindak
Adrian Mindak
Courses Plus Student 10,877 Points

Code challenge for Attribute-classes: What am I missing?

...the code is always failing.

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
img[titleˆ="product-"] {
  border-color: lightblue;
}

2 Answers

Alex Ross
Alex Ross
3,091 Points

From what I can tell it appears your upward carrot " ^ " (I don't know what it's called) is for some reason not the correct symbol. Make sure you use "shift-6" on your keyboard for the correct symbol. The below code has the correct symbol and passes the challenge.

img[title^="product-"] {
  border-color: lightblue;
}
Adrian Mindak
Adrian Mindak
Courses Plus Student 10,877 Points
Adrian Mindak
Adrian Mindak
Courses Plus Student 10,877 Points

Yes, I thought so too. But I looked it up and yes I am using shift-6. It is totally strange. But you are right my symbol looks different from yours. Are there any more carrot-characters on the keyboard. or is the US carrot not the same as the British one ;).

Adrian Mindak
Adrian Mindak
Courses Plus Student 10,877 Points
Adrian Mindak
Adrian Mindak
Courses Plus Student 10,877 Points

When I copy and paste your code - the challenge is working :D.

Adrian Mindak
Adrian Mindak
Courses Plus Student 10,877 Points
Adrian Mindak
Adrian Mindak
Courses Plus Student 10,877 Points

OOHhh I just figured that if I type shift-6 and then add a Space to continue typing, the Carrot looks and works just like it should. Otherwise, if I just continue "='value or something'" it does not work and the carrot stays as strange as it is right now.

Is this a normal behavior? I am from Germany and brought my MacBook with an International-English keyboard ...soo maybe that's why?

Alex Ross
Alex Ross
3,091 Points
Alex Ross
Alex Ross
3,091 Points

I'm glad it worked. I would imagine it has something to do either with it being a Mac or the international keyboard. I don't have very much experience with Macs but I understand their typing and keyboards work slightly different from a Windows platform.