Basic CSS: Use Attribute Selectors to Style Elements

Basic CSS: Use Attribute Selectors to Style Elements

You have been giving id or class attributes to elements that you wish to specifically style. These are known as ID and class selectors. There are other CSS Selectors you can use to select custom groups of elements to style.

Let's bring out CatPhotoApp again to practice using CSS Selectors.

For this challenge, you will use the [attr=value] attribute selector to style the checkboxes in CatPhotoApp. This selector matches and styles elements with a specific attribute value. For example, the below code changes the margins of all elements with the attribute type and a corresponding value of radio:

[type='radio'] {
  margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;
}

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Using the type attribute selector, try to give the checkboxes in CatPhotoApp a top margin of 10px and a bottom margin of 15px.

solution:

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<style>

[type='checkbox']

{

margin: 10px 0px 15px 0px;

}

.red-text {

color: red;

}

h2 {

font-family: Lobster, monospace;

}

p {

font-size: 16px;

font-family: monospace;

}

.thick-green-border {

border-color: green;

border-width: 10px;

border-style: solid;

border-radius: 50%;

}

.smaller-image {

width: 100px;

}

.silver-background {

background-color: silver;

}

</style>

<h2 class="red-text">CatPhotoApp</h2>

<main>

<p class="red-text">Click here to view more <a href="#">cat photos</a>.</p>

<a href="#"><img class="smaller-image thick-green-border" src="https://bit.ly/fcc-relaxing-cat" alt="A cute orange cat lying on its back."></a>

<div class="silver-background">

<p>Things cats love:</p>

<ul>

<li>cat nip</li>

<li>laser pointers</li>

<li>lasagna</li>

</ul>

<p>Top 3 things cats hate:</p>

<ol>

<li>flea treatment</li>

<li>thunder</li>

<li>other cats</li>

</ol>

</div>

<form action="/submit-cat-photo" id="cat-photo-form">

<label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor" checked> Indoor</label>

<label><input type="radio" name="indoor-outdoor"> Outdoor</label><br>

<label><input type="checkbox" name="personality" checked> Loving</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Lazy</label>

<label><input type="checkbox" name="personality"> Energetic</label><br>

<input type="text" placeholder="cat photo URL" required>

<button type="submit">Submit</button>

</form>

</main>