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CSS CSS Foundations Advanced Selectors Pseudo-Classes: :nth-child

Posted by Imtiaz Govani
Imtiaz Govani
1,422 Points

Help

Can't see what i'm doing wrong here..

ul li:nth-child (even) {
  color: white;
  background-color:black;
}

Regards, Imtiaz

Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

Could you give us some context. That looks like valid CSS. But I am unsure what your task was so can't confirm if it is correct

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Adam Sackfield , this is the code challange Imtiaz Govani was referring to. Do you know if CSS allows a space between "nth-child" and the first parenthesis or not? I've never had a problem with that in the past. I could be just a glitch with how the code challenge is parsing the css?

1 Answer

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Ok so I'm not sure if this is just a glitch with the code challenge or a css rule, but the challenge will pass with your code if you remove the space between nth-child and the first parenthesis before "even".

Imtiaz Govani
Imtiaz Govani
1,422 Points

Thanks, that cured the problem!