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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add and Style Icons

Juan Juarez
Juan Juarez
2,292 Points
Posted by Juan Juarez
Juan Juarez
2,292 Points

selecting class .contact-info, question on syntax

On stage 7 in adding pages to a website the quiz asks to add the class for contact info with the unordered list, I understand the class selection but why does it not have a ( ul or li) element next to it?

my first answer was .contact-info ul , at the beginning but it was wrong( the rest of the code was the same) am I just getting confused by the way the question was asked? Please clarify.

css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1, h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

h1 {
  font-family: ‘Changa One’, sans-serif;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

nav ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 0;
}

nav li {
  display: inline-block;
}

nav a {
  font-weight: 800;
  padding: 15px 10px;
}

.profile-photo {
  display: block;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
      max-width: 150px;
  border-radius: 100%;
}


.contact-info {

  margin: 0; 
  padding: 0; 
  list-style: none; 
  font-size: 0.9em;

}

2 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Juan,

It's asking for you to Select the unordered list with the class contact-info...

  • .contact-info ul (as you tried first) would select all unordered lists which have a parent of contact-info.
  • ul.contact-info will select the unordered list with a class of contact-info as the question mentions.
  • .contact-info will also work but is not specific to unordered lists. This will select any element with a class of contact-info.

Hope that helps explain it.

-Rich

Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points
Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points

Hi Juan,

I don't know the html your working with but my guess is, if this is the html:

<ul class="contact-info">

Then the reason you don't need to add ul is because the class contact-info is really replacing the ul tag in your code, if that makes sense.

Hope this helps.