Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 78

HTML-CSS
1

Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
Hi guys,

I was hoping I could get some clarifications.
I made an error in the code on purpose so I could create this post.

So this is my issue, sometimes when in css I’m working with classes, it requires a dot (.) before the class I am supposed to use and sometimes it dosent and its a bit confusing.

how do I know when I’m supposed to use the dot or not.

for example in step 78 I was supposed to create a class for the element which I did.

And then when I wanted to use the class for the footer I used a dot before it like this:

.footer{
}

and I got an error, but looking at all the other classes before it in the code for example the price and so on the all have a dot infront.

So what are the rules here? when is the dot used and not used?

best regards,
Sam

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Cafe Menu</title>
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="menu">
      <main>
        <h1>CAMPER CAFE</h1>
        <p class="established">Est. 2020</p>
        <hr>
        <section>
          <h2>Coffee</h2>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="flavor">French Vanilla</p><p class="price">3.00</p>
          </article>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="flavor">Caramel Macchiato</p><p class="price">3.75</p>
          </article>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="flavor">Pumpkin Spice</p><p class="price">3.50</p>
          </article>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="flavor">Hazelnut</p><p class="price">4.00</p>
          </article>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="flavor">Mocha</p><p class="price">4.50</p>
          </article>
        </section>
        <section>
          <h2>Desserts</h2>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="dessert">Donut</p><p class="price">1.50</p>
          </article>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="dessert">Cherry Pie</p><p class="price">2.75</p>
          </article>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="dessert">Cheesecake</p><p class="price">3.00</p>
          </article>
          <article class="item">
            <p class="dessert">Cinnamon Roll</p><p class="price">2.50</p>
          </article>
        </section>
      </main>
      <hr class="bottom-line">
      <footer class="footer">
        <p>
          <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org" target="_blank">Visit our website</a>
        </p>
        <p>123 Free Code Camp Drive</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
body {
  background-image: url(https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-cafe/beans.jpg);
  font-family: sans-serif;
  padding: 20px;
}

h1 {
  font-size: 40px;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 30px;
}

.established {
  font-style: italic;
}

h1, h2, p {
  text-align: center;
}

.menu {
  width: 80%;
  background-color: burlywood;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  padding: 20px;
  max-width: 500px;
}

hr {
  height: 2px;
  background-color: brown;
  border-color: brown;
}

.bottom-line {
  margin-top: 25px;
}

h1, h2 {
  font-family: Impact, serif;
}

.item p {
  display: inline-block;
  margin-top: 5px;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
  font-size: 18px;
}

.flavor, .dessert {
  text-align: left;
  width: 75%;
}

.price {
  text-align: right;
  width: 25%
}

/* FOOTER */

footer{
  font-size: 144px
}

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.0 Safari/605.1.15

Challenge: Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 78

Link to the challenge:

2

An element doesn’t required any prefix.

A class required . as a prefix.

An id requires # prefix.

The reason why your test is failing is because test asked for element and you are using class for style.

6 Likes
3

CSS selectors : ‘footer’ for this element, ‘.footer’ for a class, ‘#footer’ for id. Delete the class you typed in the opening tag for the ‘footer’ element (HTML code) and add a semi-colon at the end of the value for the font-size property (CSS code).

2 Likes
4

OK, thank you for your reply now I know :slight_smile:

5

This topic was automatically closed 182 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.