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CSS selectors allow you to target HTML elements and apply styles to them. This exercise is a great way to sharpen your CSS skills and practice what you've learned about CSS selectors.
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Hay everyone, Gill hear, it's time to
sharpen your CSS skills by practicing
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the fundamentals of CSS selectors.
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In this practice session, you are going
to write basic selectors to target and
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style different elements of a web page.
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To get started launch
the workspace with this video.
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When you preview the workspace,
you'll see that I've already
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included most of the base styles and
layout styles for the page.
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So now let's walk through
what you'll need to do.
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In the file selectors.css there are 8
comments with instructions on the type of
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selectors you'll need to write.
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For example, the first comment wants you
to change the color of all list items
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inside an unordered list, and
you can use any color you'd like for this.
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Below the second comment,
you'll need to write two selectors,
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one that removes the text decoration
from navigation links only and
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another that changes a nav
links text color when hovered.
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Again, you can set the text
to whatever color you like.
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Then you're going to create hover and
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visited styles for
all links inside the main element.
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For example, you can remove
the text decoration on hover and
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change a links color,
once it's been visited.
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After that, you'll change the background
color of the submit button only when
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it's active then give the text
field a blue border upon focus.
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For the next two selectors, you're going
to apply classes and ids to the HTML.
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So, for example,
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the next comment asks you to give the span
tag in the footer a meaningful class name.
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Then select it in the style sheet and
reduce its font size.
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And you'll also give the image
tag in the header an id,
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selected, and set its width to 100 pixels.
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Finally, you're going to target
all heading tags on the page and
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set their font family to the font
stack provided in the comment.
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When you're finished,
your page should look similar to this.
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This exercise is a great way to
practice what you've learned so
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far about CSS selectors.
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So good luck, have fun,
and in the next video,
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I will walk you through the solution.
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