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

How to send the 'class' attribute of the first <a> element to "social-links"?

<!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>

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

2 Answers

Max Senden
Max Senden
23,177 Points

Hi Ionela,

The class attribute should follow immediately after opening the anchor tag. So <a class="xxx" href="yyy">text</a>. Also your code contains a double space immediately after opening the anchor tags.

Good luck, Max

Thank you! It makes sense now.