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CSS CSS Selectors Advanced Selectors Pseudo-Elements Challenge

Angus Eliott
Angus Eliott
3,793 Points
Posted by Angus Eliott
Angus Eliott
3,793 Points

pseudo malfunction

help! what's wrong with the attached code? (do not know selector to put in line 11)

style.css 
/*1*/ /* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */
/*2*/
/*3*/.progbar::after {
 /*4*/ content: "";
 /*5*/ display: block;
 /*6*/ width: 50%;
  /*7*/height: 100%;
 /*8*/ border-radius: inherit;
/*9*/background-color: #5ece7f; 
/*10*/}
/*11*/::after a {
 /*12*/ content: href;
/*13*/}
/*14*/
/*15*/.progbar.progbar::before {
/*16*/  content: "";
/*17*/  display: block;
/*18*/  width: 24px;
/*19*/  height: 24px;
/*20*/  border-radius: 50%;
/*21*/  position: absolute;
/*22*/  left: 49%;
/*23*/  top: -9px;
/*24*/  background-color: #7dd898; 
/*25*/}
/*26*/
/*27*/.progbar {
  /*28*/height: 6px;
  /*29*/border-radius: 3px;
/*30*/  background: #d6d7d9;
/*31*/  position: relative;
/*32*/  margin-bottom: 3.875em; 
/*33*/}
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Selectors</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="progbar"></div> 
    <a href="http://teamtreehouse.com">Check out the URL: </a>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Jonathan Rawlins
Jonathan Rawlins
13,998 Points
Jonathan Rawlins
Jonathan Rawlins
13,998 Points

The issue you are facing is that right now you are not targeting the anchor (a) with the ::after pseudo.

To target this, you would use: 

a::after

To extract the href attribute, you need to use the css function of attr. e.g 

content: attr(href);

In turn leaving you with:

a::after{
  content: attr(href); 
}

I hope this helps.