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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets Style the Basic Elements

Sanjay Goswami
Sanjay Goswami
397 Points
Posted by Sanjay Goswami
Sanjay Goswami
397 Points

Error?

Its asking me to "Remove the underlines" but there is no coding language on this section for me to correct. Am I missing something?

4 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The question is asking what CSS would you need to write to remove underlines from links on a page. How to do this was discussed in the previous video use an id selector at around time index 3:55.

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points
Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

It sounds like you need to add a code block to the CSS file to remove the underlines. Since you're trying to learn this, I won't give it away but refer you to this link on how to remove that bit of style. Hope it helps!

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

As a general rule of thumb I never link newbies to W3Schools without the caveat that w3schools has some issues with credibility

So I usually suggest these instead:

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

I'd agree W3Schools has some inaccuracies and their website is a bit outdated. Some say they rank so well because they haven't changed their website in ages. I think Paul Irish found just a handful of inaccuracies on their website. Here's a more recent criticism of W3Schools.

It's interesting Google gives them so much credit.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

That's a great critique of w3schools, there are 3 major issues with it.

from least to most important

  • random technical inaccuracies
  • mistaken assumption that the w3schools is affiliated with the W3C
  • w3schools PR problem of people assuming it's terrible and amateurish

In my view the random inaccuracies isn't the problem, in web world people are very trend driven, like asking for a critique of a fixed width website will result in lots of people remarking it's not responsive. As such if you want to be taken seriously by those who takes the trends seriously you must go with the flow.