Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 79

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I have tried the Read-Search-Ask method but I am still stuck on what to do, please help!

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>
        <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: 14px;

/* User Editable Region */

.a {
  colour: black;
}

/* User Editable Region */

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Challenge Information:

Learn Basic CSS by Building a Cafe Menu - Step 79

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Can you say more about how exactly the instructions or error message is confusing? Communication is a critical coding skill

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i’m just not understanding what it means or what its asking me to do in general, it says:
The default color of a link that has not yet been clicked on is typically blue. The default color of a link that has already been visited from a page is typically purple.

To make the footer links the same color regardless if a link has been visited, use a type selector for the anchor element (a) and use the value black for the color property

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That’s not really specific at all. You don’t need to copy-paste the instructions, we can read.

Do you know

  1. what a CSSt ype selector is

  2. what a CSS value is

  3. what a CSS property is

If you don’t know all 3, that’s not good, but if you can narrow it down to one or two that would help us help you.

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Hello!

I note three problems with your code; though you have coded it in the correct way.

Just a few things we all could miss or do.

a is an element, not a class. Remove the . before it.

The } closing curly bracket from above the a selector is missing.

The word colour should be the American spelling of color.

Happy coding!

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Thank you for the above steps. I have been stuck here for almost 1 hour. I went through the MDN docs, w3schools and googled the life out of this but finally the above helped me out. There seemed to be a glitch where it removed a curly brace from the above and that was my issue.

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Thanks for this reminder

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It is pretty easy to accidentally delete a } or {. A red squiggly line is usually a hint that you might have done that