Why is my :last-child not working?

HTML-CSS
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
why is my :last-child not working? i am trying to make it so only the last fieldset doesnt have a bottom-border line. using bottom-border: none; and border: none; dont work.

   **Your code so far**

/* file: index.html */
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <head>
   <title>Registration Form</title>
	  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />
 </head>
 <body>
   <h1>Registration Form</h1>
   <p>Please fill out this form with the required information</p>
   <form action='https://register-demo.freecodecamp.org'>
     <fieldset>
       <label>Enter Your First Name: <input type="text" name="first-name" required /></label>
       <label>Enter Your Last Name: <input type="text" name="last-name" required /></label>
       <label>Enter Your Email: <input type="email" name="email" required /></label>
       <label>Create a New Password: <input type="password" name="password" pattern="[a-z0-5]{8,}" required /></label>
     </fieldset>
     <fieldset>
       <label><input type="radio" name="account-type" /> Personal Account</label>
       <label><input type="radio" name="account-type" /> Business Account</label>
       <label>
         <input type="checkbox" name="terms" required /> I accept the <a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/terms-of-service/">terms and conditions</a>
			  </label>
     </fieldset>
     <fieldset>
       <label>Upload a profile picture: <input type="file" name="file" /></label>
       <label>Input your age (years): <input type="number" name="age" min="13" max="120" />
			  </label>
       <label>How did you hear about us?
         <select name="referrer">
           <option value="">(select one)</option>
           <option value="1">freeCodeCamp News</option>
           <option value="2">freeCodeCamp YouTube Channel</option>
           <option value="3">freeCodeCamp Forum</option>
           <option value="4">Other</option>
         </select>
       </label>
       <label>Provide a bio:
         <textarea name="bio" rows="3" cols="30" placeholder="I like coding on the beach..."></textarea>
			  </label>
     </fieldset>
     <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
   </form>
 </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
body {
 width: 100%;
 height: 100vh;
 margin: 0;
 background-color: #1b1b32;
	color: #f5f6f7;
 font-family: Tahoma;
	font-size: 16px;
}

h1, p {
 margin: 1em auto;
 text-align: center;
}

form {
 width: 60vw;
	max-width: 500px;
	min-width: 300px;
	margin: 0 auto;
}

fieldset {
 border: none;
	padding: 2rem 0;
 border-bottom: 3px solid #3b3b4f
}

fieldset:last-child {
 border: none;
}

label {
	display: block;
	margin: 0.5rem 0;
}


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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.61 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Step 41

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HI @seonathankk !

I would suggest resetting the lesson.

Your task is to select all but the last fieldset element.

You will need to first read about the not pseudo class

Then you will need to read about the last of type css pseudo class

Hope that helps!

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i will take a look thank you!

6

thank you for replying! why does it see the last input element as a sibling? wouldn’t the fieldset:last-child just look for the last fieldset element? does a submit button count as its own fieldset?

8

thank you for your time! I now understand :blush:
it was trying to find a fieldset element which also has to be last sibling of the parent (form) but since input was the last sibling it didnt work.

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Let me clarify one thing. The fieldset:last-child selector ignores the 3rd fieldset because it is not the last sibling and a fieldset element.

The use of last-of-type basically filters out all the other siblings and then looks at the last of the same type.

For example, if I had the following:

HTML

<div id="one">
  <p>a</p>
  <p>b</p>
  <p>c</p>
</div>

<div id="second">
  <p>1</p>
  <p>2</p>
  <p>3</p>
  <div>
    text in div
  </div>
</div>

CSS

p:last-child {
  background: green;
}

the only background that turns green is for the p with c as its text.

The nested div in the second div (with id=“second”) is the last sibling of the second group of p elements, but since it is not a p element, it does not get a green background.

If I use the same HTML but use the following CSS:

p:last-of-type {
  background: green;
}

both the c and the 3 get a green background.

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