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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Posted by Tage Smith
Tage Smith
2,997 Points

nav a, nav a; visited;

When I applied this last line of code, the navigation links went back to the background color. Why is that?

2 Answers

Skirmantė Rudaviciute
Skirmantė Rudaviciute
4,566 Points

try this! you have a semicolon between the a and the visited. It should work with a colon!

nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff;
}

Tage Smith
Tage Smith
2,997 Points

Thanks. I have a feeling I'm going to get hung up on the little things...

Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points
Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points

Hi Tage!

Please could you provide your code for me to take a look at?

Tage Smith
Tage Smith
2,997 Points

a { text-decoration: none; }

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }

logo {

text-align: center; margin: }

a { color: #e2b47b; }

header { background: #e2b47b; border-color: #a3b67b; }

h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

nav { background: #62b33b; }

nav a, nav a;visited { color: #fff; }