Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

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

Posted by Pavneet Bolena
Pavneet Bolena
983 Points

Confused

Where do i place the class? :(

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

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

  </body>
</html>
styles.css

2 Answers

Rich Zimmerman
Rich Zimmerman
24,063 Points
Rich Zimmerman
Rich Zimmerman
24,063 Points

HTML elements can have multiple classes, and they're separated by space. So in this example you have 1 class name that is 2 words, so they need to be connected - in this case by a hyphen. So the class name MUST be "social-links".

Your code right now has your a elements having 2 classes, both "social" and "links"

Oluwasegun Adesina
Oluwasegun Adesina
8,805 Points
Oluwasegun Adesina
Oluwasegun Adesina
8,805 Points

1) You need to put the class="social-links" and the href="#" in the same opening link tag. 2) You're missing the "-" between "social" and "links". The syntax should be as follows:

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