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CSS CSS Selectors Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes :first-child and :last-child Challenge

Nick White
Nick White
8,326 Points
Posted by Nick White
Nick White
8,326 Points

Need help here

It tells me to adjust the border radius when there isn't any border. Additionally, when I do, it just tells me to set all border properties to none.

style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.main-nav:first-child > li:first-child {
    border: none;
  border-radius: 5px 0px 0px 5px;
}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Selectors</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito:400,300' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <header>
      <h1>My Site!</h1>
      <ul class="main-nav">
        <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Work</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
      </ul>
    </header>
    <div>
      <p>Tattooed viral put a bird on it skateboard. Drinking vinegar locavore squid farm-to-table, dreamcatcher tattooed kitsch scenester. Tousled wolf squid Wes Anderson PBR, Williamsburg banh mi dreamcatcher stumptown ethnic sartorial mlkshk. Hella mixtape bespoke mustache Bushwick. Post-ironic hashtag jean shorts, Truffaut organic roof party pop-up wayfarers selvage narwhal. Mixtape roof party twee, post-ironic bespoke hella artisan meggings Carles brunch pop-up Tonx street art normcore. DIY paleo slow-carb occupy tofu fingerstache.</p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Jonathan Fernandes
PLUS
Jonathan Fernandes
Courses Plus Student 22,784 Points
Jonathan Fernandes
Jonathan Fernandes
Courses Plus Student 22,784 Points

I think you missed a small detail on what the question was asking:

.main-nav li:first-child {
  border: none;
  border-top-left-radius: 5px;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
}

.main-nav li:last-child {
  border: none;
  border-top-right-radius: 5px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;
}

You were selecting the wrong elements. Does that help?

Doron Geyer
seal-mask
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Doron Geyer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,897 Points
Doron Geyer
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Doron Geyer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,897 Points

your code as you wrote it 

/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
.main-nav:first-child > li:first-child {
    border: none;
  border-radius: 5px 0px 0px 5px;
}

you've made this more complicated than it needs to be

by trying to use the ">" to target a direct child descendant. In this use case if you look at the index.html file its not necessary or the simplest way to deal with this.

simply using:

.main-nav li:first-child {
   border: none;
   border-radius: 5px 0 0 5px;
}

you have already selected " .main-nav " and its descendant " li " all you needed to complete it was to say you want the first child of this list.

your final code would then look like this 

.main-nav li:first-child {
  border: none;
  border-radius: 5px 0 0 5px;
}
.main-nav li:last-child {  
  border-radius: 0 5px 5px 0;
}